This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

mei: remove dev_err message on an unsupported ioctl

to my char-misc git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git in the char-misc-next branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will also be merged in the next major kernel release during the merge window.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

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From: Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 16:21:05 +0000 Subject: mei: remove dev_err message on an unsupported ioctl

Currently the driver spams the kernel log on unsupported ioctls which is unnecessary as the ioctl returns -ENOIOCTLCMD to indicate this anyway. I suspect this was originally for debugging purposes but it really is not required so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com Cc: stable stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/misc/mei/main.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/mei/main.c b/drivers/misc/mei/main.c index 401b1bc4d282..7465f17e1559 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/mei/main.c +++ b/drivers/misc/mei/main.c @@ -528,7 +528,6 @@ static long mei_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long data) break;

default: - dev_err(dev->dev, ": unsupported ioctl %d.\n", cmd); rets = -ENOIOCTLCMD; }