From: Hante Meuleman Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 11:32:39 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] brcmfmac: Change error print on wlan0 existence. During initialization of the device, but also on some other moments the driver prints an error that the netdev already exists. This is a result of the way the driver is initializing the firmware and not really an error. The code is not treating it as an error either. This error print has resulted in many questions by users and is confusing and incorrect. This patch changes the error log into a debug info log. Reviewed-by: Arend Van Spriel Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts Signed-off-by: Hante Meuleman Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo --- --- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c @@ -811,14 +811,15 @@ struct brcmf_if *brcmf_add_if(struct brc * in case we missed the BRCMF_E_IF_DEL event. */ if (ifp) { - brcmf_err("ERROR: netdev:%s already exists\n", - ifp->ndev->name); if (ifidx) { + brcmf_err("ERROR: netdev:%s already exists\n", + ifp->ndev->name); netif_stop_queue(ifp->ndev); brcmf_net_detach(ifp->ndev); drvr->iflist[bsscfgidx] = NULL; } else { - brcmf_err("ignore IF event\n"); + brcmf_dbg(INFO, "netdev:%s ignore IF event\n", + ifp->ndev->name); return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); } }