[PATCH v2 2/2] brcmfmac: Silence error messages about unsupported firmware features

From: Dmitry Osipenko
Date: Tue May 11 2021 - 17:16:52 EST


KMSG is flooded with error messages about unsupported firmware
features of BCM4329 chip. The GET_ASSOCLIST error became especially
noisy with a newer NetworkManager version of Ubuntu 21.04. Turn the
noisy error messages into info messages and print them out only once.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@xxxxxxxxx>
---

v2: - Switched to use generic printk helper as was suggested by
Andy Shevchenko in a comment to v1.

- Silenced message about the rxchain, which is also unsupported
by BCM4329.

.../broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c | 16 +++++++++++++---
.../wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c | 11 ++++++++---
.../wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/debug.h | 4 ++++
3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
index f4405d7861b6..27331dfc9ec0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
@@ -2892,8 +2892,13 @@ brcmf_cfg80211_dump_station(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *ndev,
&cfg->assoclist,
sizeof(cfg->assoclist));
if (err) {
- bphy_err(drvr, "BRCMF_C_GET_ASSOCLIST unsupported, err=%d\n",
- err);
+ /* GET_ASSOCLIST unsupported by firmware of older chips */
+ if (err == -EBADE)
+ bphy_info_once(drvr, "BRCMF_C_GET_ASSOCLIST unsupported\n");
+ else
+ bphy_err(drvr, "BRCMF_C_GET_ASSOCLIST failed, err=%d\n",
+ err);
+
cfg->assoclist.count = 0;
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
}
@@ -6848,7 +6853,12 @@ static int brcmf_setup_wiphybands(struct brcmf_cfg80211_info *cfg)

err = brcmf_fil_iovar_int_get(ifp, "rxchain", &rxchain);
if (err) {
- bphy_err(drvr, "rxchain error (%d)\n", err);
+ /* rxchain unsupported by firmware of older chips */
+ if (err == -EBADE)
+ bphy_info_once(drvr, "rxchain unsupported\n");
+ else
+ bphy_err(drvr, "rxchain error (%d)\n", err);
+
nchain = 1;
} else {
for (nchain = 0; rxchain; nchain++)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c
index 838b09b23abf..f98b48cfc001 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c
@@ -188,9 +188,14 @@ static void _brcmf_set_multicast_list(struct work_struct *work)
/*Finally, pick up the PROMISC flag */
cmd_value = (ndev->flags & IFF_PROMISC) ? true : false;
err = brcmf_fil_cmd_int_set(ifp, BRCMF_C_SET_PROMISC, cmd_value);
- if (err < 0)
- bphy_err(drvr, "Setting BRCMF_C_SET_PROMISC failed, %d\n",
- err);
+ if (err < 0) {
+ /* PROMISC unsupported by firmware of older chips */
+ if (err == -EBADE)
+ bphy_info_once(drvr, "BRCMF_C_SET_PROMISC unsupported\n");
+ else
+ bphy_err(drvr, "Setting BRCMF_C_SET_PROMISC failed, err=%d\n",
+ err);
+ }
brcmf_configure_arp_nd_offload(ifp, !cmd_value);
}

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/debug.h b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/debug.h
index 44ba6f389fa9..9bb5f709d41a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/debug.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/debug.h
@@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ void __brcmf_err(struct brcmf_bus *bus, const char *func, const char *fmt, ...);
##__VA_ARGS__); \
} while (0)

+#define bphy_info_once(drvr, fmt, ...) \
+ wiphy_info_once((drvr)->wiphy, "%s: " fmt, __func__, \
+ ##__VA_ARGS__)
+
#if defined(DEBUG) || defined(CONFIG_BRCM_TRACING)

/* For debug/tracing purposes treat info messages as errors */
--
2.30.2