Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264399AbTFPWlH (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jun 2003 18:41:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264403AbTFPWjg (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jun 2003 18:39:36 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:17062 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264399AbTFPWi3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jun 2003 18:38:29 -0400 Message-ID: <3EEE4A1A.6010904@pobox.com> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 18:52:10 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021213 Debian/1.2.1-2.bunk X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: Janice M Girouard , "David S. Miller" , netdev@oss.sgi.com, Daniel Stekloff , Janice Girouard , Larry Kessler , kenistonj@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: patch for common networking error messages References: <3EEE28DE.6040808@us.ibm.com> <20030616.133841.35533284.davem@redhat.com> <3EEE2F9F.60706@us.ibm.com> <3EEE492E.9080308@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <3EEE492E.9080308@pobox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1058 Lines: 29 Jeff Garzik wrote: > 3) _Somebody_ needs to do some "ground pounding", and figure out what > info sysadmins and users want to see. Event logging in general, so far, > seems to me more like a management checklist item than a real user > need... but I am quite willing to be proved wrong. Until we get > feedback along these lines, I tend to resist changes like this in > general. My initial read of your attached patch was that it was a long > of source churn, and I couldn't fathom what any user would gain from it make that "a lot of" > There are a whole bunch of netif_msg_xxx and corresponding NETIF_MSG_xxx > bits. I don't see much need to change that I think getting the logging > API right for those would be an important first step. > > Jeff arg :) I should fire my editor. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/