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H A Dqed_mcp.c39815944 Thu Mar 23 08:50:18 CDT 2017 Mintz, Yuval <Yuval.Mintz@cavium.com> qed: Reduce verbosity of unimplemented MFW messages

Management firmware and driver are meant to be both backward and forward
compatibile with each other.

If a new mangement firmware would work with an older driver,
it's possible that driver would receive indications which are meaningless
to it. That's perfectly acceptible from the firmware part - so no need to
log such messages at default verbosity; That would only serve to confuse
users.

Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
39815944 Thu Mar 23 08:50:18 CDT 2017 Mintz, Yuval <Yuval.Mintz@cavium.com> qed: Reduce verbosity of unimplemented MFW messages

Management firmware and driver are meant to be both backward and forward
compatibile with each other.

If a new mangement firmware would work with an older driver,
it's possible that driver would receive indications which are meaningless
to it. That's perfectly acceptible from the firmware part - so no need to
log such messages at default verbosity; That would only serve to confuse
users.

Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>