On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 11:14:54PM -0400, Vivien Didelot wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch> writes: > > >> mutex_lock(&ps->smi_mutex); > >> - ret = _mv88e6xxx_port_fdb_load(ds, port, fdb->addr, fdb->vid, state); > >> + if (_mv88e6xxx_port_fdb_load(ds, port, fdb->addr, fdb->vid, state)) > >> + netdev_warn(ds->ports[port], "cannot load address\n"); > > > > In the SF2 driver you use pr_err, but here netdev_warn. We probably > > should be consistent if we error or warn. I would use netdev_error, > > since if this fails we probably have a real hardware problem. > > I used pr_err in the SF2 driver to be consistent with the rest of the > code which only uses pr_err and pr_info.
O.K, good. > I was thinking about adding ds_err and ds_port_err to print errors for > ds->master_dev and ds->ports[port], but that might be overkill. I'm also trying to kill off the use of ds within the mv88e6xxx driver. > What do you think? Or local to the driver for the moment, like > mvsw_err maybe? I would keep it local. Also, for this sort of error, it does not need to differentiate on port. It is a hardware access error, something is wrong with the mdio bus/switch. So i would even put the message in the very low level reg_read/reg_write functions, and no where else. Andrew