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From: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>
To: "Krzysztof Wilczyński" <kw@linux.com>,
	"Manivannan Sadhasivam" <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>
Cc: Vidya Sagar <vidyas@nvidia.com>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>,
	jingoohan1@gmail.com, gustavo.pimentel@synopsys.com,
	lpieralisi@kernel.org, robh@kernel.org, bhelgaas@google.com,
	treding@nvidia.com, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kthota@nvidia.com,
	mmaddireddy@nvidia.com, sagar.tv@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V1] PCI: dwc: Use dev_info for PCIe link down event logging
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2022 16:11:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55fb64f0-7fe7-7938-9852-0ce389050f09@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YyHqxGw6ADmJUTEv@rocinante>


On 14/09/2022 15:52, Krzysztof Wilczyński wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>>> Perhaps it makes sense to make this a dev_dbg() over dev_info(), especially
>>> since it appears that this information is of more use to the developer (who
>>> most likely has the suitable log level set anyway), and given that there is
>>> no way to reliably detect a presence in a slot on some platforms, this
>>> might otherwise, add to the other messages that normal users don't pay
>>> attention to usually - if this is not to be treated as an error.
>>>
>>
>> No, this is clearly not a debug message. As I quoted above, the link up
>> can fail due to an issue with PHY also. In that case, user has to see
>> the log to debug/report the issue.
> 
> Apologies!  I missed that.  Thank you!
>   
>> So, either dev_info() or dev_err().
> 
> So, there is nothing to do here, then.  This stays as dev_err() as per the
> change from:
> 
>    14c4ad125cf9 ("PCI: dwc: Log link speed and width if it comes up")


I am not sure I agree. There is a similar change here ...

commit 4b16a8227907118e011fb396022da671a52b2272
Author: Manikanta Maddireddy <mmaddireddy@nvidia.com>
Date:   Tue Jun 18 23:32:06 2019 +0530

     PCI: tegra: Change link retry log level to debug

If we have a way to determine if a card/device is connected then dev_err 
is appropriate, but if not then dev_dbg/info are appropriate IMO.

Jon

-- 
nvpublic

  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-14 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-13 10:12 [PATCH V1] PCI: dwc: Use dev_info for PCIe link down event logging Vidya Sagar
2022-09-13 16:51 ` Manivannan Sadhasivam
2022-09-13 17:00   ` Jon Hunter
2022-09-13 20:07     ` Bjorn Helgaas
2022-09-14  6:24       ` Manivannan Sadhasivam
2022-09-14 11:02         ` Vidya Sagar
2022-09-14 11:18           ` Manivannan Sadhasivam
2022-09-14 11:25             ` Jon Hunter
2022-09-14 11:43               ` Manivannan Sadhasivam
2022-09-14 11:52                 ` Jon Hunter
2022-09-14 12:44                 ` Krzysztof Wilczyński
2022-09-14 13:45                   ` Manivannan Sadhasivam
2022-09-14 14:52                     ` Krzysztof Wilczyński
2022-09-14 15:11                       ` Jon Hunter [this message]
2022-09-15 14:16         ` Rob Herring
2022-09-15 14:52           ` Manivannan Sadhasivam
2022-09-26 10:29             ` Vidya Sagar
2022-10-03 11:25               ` Vidya Sagar
2022-10-04 12:53             ` Rob Herring
2022-10-10  6:02               ` Vidya Sagar
2022-10-26 18:06                 ` Rob Herring
2022-10-27  9:39           ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2022-10-27 11:03             ` Manivannan Sadhasivam
2022-09-14  6:12     ` Manivannan Sadhasivam
2022-09-15 10:44 ` Manivannan Sadhasivam
2022-10-18  6:21 ` Jon Hunter
2022-10-18 16:43   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2022-10-26 11:39     ` Jon Hunter
2022-10-26 12:33       ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2022-10-27  9:55       ` Ben Dooks
2022-10-27 11:05         ` Manivannan Sadhasivam
2022-11-10 15:40 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi

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