Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] usb: serial: handle -EPROTO quietly in generic_read_bulk

From: Jeremiah Mahler
Date: Sat Dec 20 2014 - 08:00:03 EST


Sergei,

On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 03:32:42PM +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello.
>
> On 12/20/2014 12:11 PM, Jeremiah Mahler wrote:
>
> >If a USB serial device driver, which is built using the generic serial
> >driver, is unplugged while there is an active program using the device,
>
> Driver is unplugged? :-)
>
Yes, that doesn't make sense. Good catch, thanks :-)

> >it will spam the logs with -EPROTO (71) messages as it attempts to
> >retry.
>
> >Most serial usb drivers (metro-usb, pl2303, mos7840, ...) only output
> >these messages for debugging. The generic driver treats these as
> >errors.
>
> >Change the default output for the generic serial driver from error to
> >debug.
>
> >Signed-off-by: Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> [...]
>
> WBR, Sergei
>

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- Jeremiah Mahler
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