[PATCH net] qed: Disable "MFW indication via attention" SPAM every 5 minutes

[PATCH net] qed: Disable "MFW indication via attention" SPAM every 5 minutes

[Laurence Oberman]

This is likely firmware causing this but its starting to annoy customers.
Change the message level to verbose to prevent the spam.
Note that this seems to only show up with ISCSI enabled on the HBA via the 
qedi driver.

Signed-off-by: Laurence Oberman <loberman@redhat.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_int.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_int.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_int.c
index b7b974f..d853eb9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_int.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_int.c
@@ -1193,7 +1193,8 @@ static int qed_int_attentions(struct qed_hwfn *p_hwfn)
 			index, attn_bits, attn_acks, asserted_bits,
 			deasserted_bits, p_sb_attn_sw->known_attn);
 	} else if (asserted_bits == 0x100) {
-		DP_INFO(p_hwfn, "MFW indication via attention\n");
+		DP_VERBOSE(p_hwfn, NETIF_MSG_INTR,
+			   "MFW indication via attention\n");
 	} else {
 		DP_VERBOSE(p_hwfn, NETIF_MSG_INTR,
 			   "MFW indication [deassertion]\n");
-- 
1.8.3.1

Re: [PATCH net] qed: Disable "MFW indication via attention" SPAM every 5 minutes

[David Miller]

From: Laurence Oberman <loberman@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 18:08:05 -0400

> This is likely firmware causing this but its starting to annoy customers.
> Change the message level to verbose to prevent the spam.
> Note that this seems to only show up with ISCSI enabled on the HBA via the 
> qedi driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Laurence Oberman <loberman@redhat.com>

Applied, thanks.

Re: [EXT] [PATCH net] qed: Disable "MFW indication via attention" SPAM every 5 minutes

[Igor Russkikh]

> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is likely firmware causing this but its starting to annoy customers.
> Change the message level to verbose to prevent the spam.
> Note that this seems to only show up with ISCSI enabled on the HBA via the
> 
> qedi driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Laurence Oberman <loberman@redhat.com>

Thanks for handling this, Laurence, we actually had the same fix in out of
tree driver recently, just missed upstreaming it.

Acked-by: Igor Russkikh <irusskikh@marvell.com>