Re: [PATCH 1/4] mei: Don't log an error when the MEI device is quirked off

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Tue Mar 11 2014 - 18:18:18 EST


On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 3:03 AM, Winkler, Tomas <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Andy Lutomirski [mailto:luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2014 20:58
>> To: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Cc: trivial@xxxxxxxxxx; Andy Lutomirski; Winkler, Tomas
>> Subject: [PATCH 1/4] mei: Don't log an error when the MEI device is quirked off
>>
>> If an administrator wants to use MEI, they can search the logs for
>> 'mei'. Otherwise they don't need a glaring reminder that their
>> hardware doesn't actually support MEI.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/misc/mei/pci-me.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/misc/mei/pci-me.c b/drivers/misc/mei/pci-me.c
>> index ddadd08..809021e 100644
>> --- a/drivers/misc/mei/pci-me.c
>> +++ b/drivers/misc/mei/pci-me.c
>> @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ static int mei_me_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const
>> struct pci_device_id *ent)
>>
>> if (!mei_me_quirk_probe(pdev, ent)) {
>> err = -ENODEV;
>> - goto end;
>> + return err; /* No point in logging an error. */
>> }
>
>
> I would like to have at least some info/debug message logged,
> the issue was discovered on specific DELL machines and there is a little worry
> that on some systems it can be false positive.

mei_me_quirk_probe logs "Device doesn't have valid ME Interface\n".

--Andy
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