[PATCH] can: dev: increase bus-off message severity

[PATCH] can: dev: increase bus-off message severity

[Jakob Unterwurzacher]

bus-off is usually caused by hardware malfunction or
configuration error (baud rate mismatch) and causes a
complete loss of communication.

Increase the "bus-off" message's severity from netdev_dbg
to netdev_info to make it visible to the user.

A can interface going into bus-off is similar in severity to
ethernet's "Link is Down" message, which is also printed
at info level.

It is debatable whether the the "restarted" message should
also be changed to netdev_info to make the interface state
changes comprehensible from the kernel log.
I have chosen to keep the "restarted" message at dbg for now
as the "bus-off" message should be enough for the user to
notice and investigate the problem.

Signed-off-by: Jakob Unterwurzacher <jakob.unterwurzacher@theobroma-systems.com>
Cc: linux-can@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/net/can/dev.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/can/dev.c b/drivers/net/can/dev.c
index b1779566c5bb..3c71f1cb205f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/can/dev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/can/dev.c
@@ -605,7 +605,7 @@ void can_bus_off(struct net_device *dev)
 {
 	struct can_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
 
-	netdev_dbg(dev, "bus-off\n");
+	netdev_info(dev, "bus-off\n");
 
 	netif_carrier_off(dev);
 
-- 
2.11.0

Re: [PATCH] can: dev: increase bus-off message severity

[Marc Kleine-Budde]

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On 04/18/2018 04:10 PM, Jakob Unterwurzacher wrote:
> bus-off is usually caused by hardware malfunction or
> configuration error (baud rate mismatch) and causes a
> complete loss of communication.
> 
> Increase the "bus-off" message's severity from netdev_dbg
> to netdev_info to make it visible to the user.
> 
> A can interface going into bus-off is similar in severity to
> ethernet's "Link is Down" message, which is also printed
> at info level.
> 
> It is debatable whether the the "restarted" message should
> also be changed to netdev_info to make the interface state
> changes comprehensible from the kernel log.
> I have chosen to keep the "restarted" message at dbg for now
> as the "bus-off" message should be enough for the user to
> notice and investigate the problem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jakob Unterwurzacher <jakob.unterwurzacher@theobroma-systems.com>
> Cc: linux-can@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

Applied to can.

Tnx,
Marc

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