From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Dichtel Subject: Re: [PATCH] netlink: downgrade warning about leftover bytes to debug level Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 09:42:17 +0200 Message-ID: <53859359.70304@6wind.com> References: <1401196563-6999-1-git-send-email-mschmidt@redhat.com> Reply-To: nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Michal Schmidt , David Miller Return-path: Received: from mail-we0-f171.google.com ([74.125.82.171]:43601 "EHLO mail-we0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754097AbaE1HmV (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2014 03:42:21 -0400 Received: by mail-we0-f171.google.com with SMTP id w62so10649400wes.2 for ; Wed, 28 May 2014 00:42:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1401196563-6999-1-git-send-email-mschmidt@redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Le 27/05/2014 15:16, Michal Schmidt a =C3=A9crit : > Any process is able to send netlink messages with leftover bytes, so > downgrade the warning message to pr_debug in order to avoid possible > kernel log spam. Yes, but that's not a normal case. I think that the level warning is go= od, there is something wrong with this kind of messages.