Re: [PATCH] firmware/psci: demote suspend-mode warning to debug level

[Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 02:24:58PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 04:32:52PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:

> > Trying to inform every user that a warning during boot is actually
> > benign and nothing to worry about generally seems backwards to me and is
> > not something that is likely to scale.
> 
> It's not *entirely* beningn; we still have to bodge around this not being to
> spec, and there are things that won't work (e.g. if we kexec to a kernel that
> expects the FW to actually follow the spec it claims to).
> 
> I agree with Sudeep that we should log something here, but I do appreciate that
> argumetn that for 90% of users this is not interesting.
> 
> I would suggest we make this:
> 
> 	pr_info(FW_BUG "failed to set PC mode: %d\n", ...);
> 
> ... so that it's always logged for those who care, but as it's INFO rather than
> WARNING, it'll easily be filtered out of logs (e.g. for users booting with
> "quiet"). Adding FW_BUG will also make this clear we're complaining about a FW
> bug rather than this being a kernel-internal error.

Sounds good. I'll respin.

Johan