[RFC PATCH] usb: reduce kernel log spam on driver registration

Alan Stern stern at rowland.harvard.edu
Thu Aug 25 12:11:06 PDT 2022


On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 07:03:27PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Drivers are typically supposed to be quiet unless they are actually
> probed, but for some reason, USB host controllers seem to be exempt from
> this rule, and happily broadcast their existence into the kernel log at
> boot even if the hardware in question is nowhere to be found.
> 
> Let's fix that, and remove these pr_info() calls.
> 
> Cc: Alan Stern <stern at rowland.harvard.edu>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> 
> Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre at microchip.com>
> Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni at bootlin.com>
> Cc: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea at microchip.com>
> Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski at linaro.org>
> Cc: Alim Akhtar <alim.akhtar at samsung.com>
> Cc: Avi Fishman <avifishman70 at gmail.com>
> Cc: Tomer Maimon <tmaimon77 at gmail.com>
> Cc: Tali Perry <tali.perry1 at gmail.com>
> Cc: Patrick Venture <venture at google.com>
> Cc: Nancy Yuen <yuenn at google.com>
> Cc: Benjamin Fair <benjaminfair at google.com>
> Cc: Patrice Chotard <patrice.chotard at foss.st.com>
> Cc: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz at mleia.com>
> Cc: linux-usb at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-samsung-soc at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-omap at vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
> ---

Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern at rowland.harvard.edu>



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