pf->msg_enable is a bitmask, therefore assigning the value of the "debug" parameter is wrong. It is initialized again later in i40e_sw_init() so it didn't cause any problem, except that we missed early debug messages. Moved the initialization and assigned pf->hw.debug_mask the bitmask as that's what the driver actually uses in i40e_debug(). Otherwise the debug parameter is just a noop.
Fixes: 5b5faa4 ("i40e: enable debug earlier") Signed-off-by: Stefan Assmann <sassm...@kpanic.de> --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c | 16 +++++++--------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c index 56369761..f972f0d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c @@ -8498,11 +8498,6 @@ static int i40e_sw_init(struct i40e_pf *pf) int err = 0; int size; - pf->msg_enable = netif_msg_init(debug, - NETIF_MSG_DRV | - NETIF_MSG_PROBE | - NETIF_MSG_LINK); - /* Set default capability flags */ pf->flags = I40E_FLAG_RX_CSUM_ENABLED | I40E_FLAG_MSI_ENABLED | @@ -10812,10 +10807,13 @@ static int i40e_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent) mutex_init(&hw->aq.asq_mutex); mutex_init(&hw->aq.arq_mutex); - if (debug != -1) { - pf->msg_enable = pf->hw.debug_mask; - pf->msg_enable = debug; - } + /* enable debug prints if requested */ + pf->msg_enable = netif_msg_init(debug, + NETIF_MSG_DRV | + NETIF_MSG_PROBE | + NETIF_MSG_LINK); + if (debug != -1) + pf->hw.debug_mask = pf->msg_enable; /* do a special CORER for clearing PXE mode once at init */ if (hw->revision_id == 0 && -- 2.7.4