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Re: [PATCH] sd: assign appropriate log level

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On 10/17/2016 10:19 AM, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-10-17 at 09:51 -0700, David Singleton wrote:
>> From: Shikhar Dogra <shidogra@cisco.com>
>>
>> Reduce chatter on console for usb hotplug.
>> KERN_ERR is too high severity for these messages, moving them
>> to KERN_WARNING
> It's an error because we have several USB to IDE bridges that have
> write back cache drives but report nothing to the caching mode page.
>   For them this is a serious error because their data integrity is at
> risk.  I'm open to other ways to fix your problem, but downgrading the
> message severity because *you* don't have an issue would mask the
> problem for others, so it's not really viable.

Is there a way to detect when you have a device of the type where this 
is a serious issue ? This typically happen for USB drives, but seems to 
have no effect on them.


Daniel

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[PATCH] sd: assign appropriate log level David Singleton <davsingl@cisco.com> - 2016-10-17 19:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] sd: assign appropriate log level Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-10-17 19:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] sd: assign appropriate log level James Bottomley <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-10-17 19:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] sd: assign appropriate log level Daniel Walker <danielwa@cisco.com> - 2016-10-17 19:40 +0200

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