[PATCH] ath10k: remove not needed warning when peer unmap

[Ben Greear]

On 04/02/2014 12:31 AM, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Janusz Dziedzic <janusz.dziedzic at tieto.com> writes:
>
>> Remove not needed warning when get peer unmap
>> event from the firmware. This is not critical
>> message. Instead print this as a debug message.
>
> I don't agree with that statement. If that would be true, we could
> remove a lot of warnings from ath10k. We have these warnings to catch
> problems early, which again improves the quality of the driver.

I see this message all the time, by the way...  I have been ignoring
it so far, but if it's  real issue then I can pay more attention.

Thanks,
Ben

>
> Your commit log was again missing the "why?" part. I assume the reason
> for this patch is the problem of seeing the warning "unknown peer id 2"
> when putting the interface is down, which again is a spurious event from
> the firmware? You should document that in the commit log as well as add
> a short comment to the code explaining why we only print a debug message
> when that happens.
>
> Other idea I had would be to keep the warning message but add a new test
> to detect this problematic case, but I guess for that we would need to
> add a new state "stopping" to catch that? For example, something like
> this:
>
> if state == stopping and event->id == 2
>          dbg("foo")
> else
>          warn("bar")
>


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Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com