Re: patch for common networking error messages

Jeff Garzik
2003-06-16T22:41:07Z

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