[PATCH 0/1] [Jaunty] LP#330606 -- tone down synaptics warnings

[Stefan Bader]

Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> We are triggering kerneloops and potentially apport reports due to
> the format of the synaptics touchpad reset messages.  This message is
> not really that critical so simply tone its wording and level down.
> Upstream has applied this fix in a slightly different way (apply the
> reset in a different way) but this late in the cycle it seems safest to
> simply alter the message and leave the handling unchanged.
> 
> Proposing this for Jaunty.  Note I am proposing we _do_ follow upstreams
> model for Karmic and will send out another patch stack for that shortly.
> 
> -apw
> 
> Andy Whitcroft (1):
>   UBUNTU: SAUCE: tone down the synaptics warning to avoid triggering
>     kerneloops
> 
>  drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> 
ACK, I thing the rational we put it in on KERN_WARNING was that it is visible 
in case people have problems with it. But it is no more visible on INFO thatn 
on WARNING, and the WARNInG text itself was unfortunate close to what WARN_On 
prints.

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