[PATCH] net/i40e: reduce log level of global register update msg

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Tue Jan 21 17:35:39 CET 2025


The modifying of a global register value, which has an affect on multiple
ports is an important change to HW. However, the actual details of that
change is only relevant to developers and not general users. Therefore
reduce the log level from "warning" - which implies something is wrong -
to "info".

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c
index 30dcdc68a8..39b6e28aad 100644
--- a/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c
@@ -750,7 +750,7 @@ i40e_write_global_rx_ctl(struct i40e_hw *hw, uint32_t reg_addr,
 	ori_reg_val = i40e_read_rx_ctl(hw, reg_addr);
 	i40e_write_rx_ctl(hw, reg_addr, reg_val);
 	if (ori_reg_val != reg_val)
-		PMD_DRV_LOG(WARNING,
+		PMD_DRV_LOG(INFO,
 			    "i40e device %s changed global register [0x%08x]."
 			    " original: 0x%08x, new: 0x%08x",
 			    dev->device->name, reg_addr, ori_reg_val, reg_val);
@@ -1352,7 +1352,7 @@ i40e_aq_debug_write_global_register(struct i40e_hw *hw,
 	}
 
 	if (ori_reg_val != reg_val)
-		PMD_DRV_LOG(WARNING,
+		PMD_DRV_LOG(INFO,
 			    "i40e device %s changed global register [0x%08x]."
 			    " original: 0x%"PRIx64", after: 0x%"PRIx64,
 			    dev->device->name, reg_addr, ori_reg_val, reg_val);
@@ -9774,7 +9774,7 @@ i40e_check_write_global_reg(struct i40e_hw *hw, uint32_t addr, uint32_t val)
 
 	if (reg != val) {
 		i40e_write_rx_ctl(hw, addr, val);
-		PMD_DRV_LOG(WARNING,
+		PMD_DRV_LOG(INFO,
 			    "i40e device %s changed global register [0x%08x]."
 			    " original: 0x%08x, new: 0x%08x",
 			    dev->device->name, addr, reg,
-- 
2.43.0



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