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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: "Michał Mirosław" <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/9] net: Unified offload configuration
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:29:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1298039371.2211.9.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110218142238.GA18099@rere.qmqm.pl>

On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 15:22 +0100, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 02:56:11PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
[...]
> > Please get rid of that annoying message spit out by netif_features_change(),
> > it's just spam.  If we want notifications for stuff like this, use a
> > non-unicast netlink message so those who want to hear it can do so.
> 
> You mean netdev_update_features() "Features changed" message? Is it ok
> to just demote it to DEBUG level or you want to remove it altogether?
> What about netdev_fix_features() messages?

I think you need to emit these messages at 'error' severity when fixing
up features for a newly-added device, but at 'debug' later on.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-18 14:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-16  2:59 [PATCH v6 0/9] net: Unified offload configuration Michał Mirosław
2011-02-16  2:59 ` [PATCH v6 2/9] ethtool: enable GSO and GRO by default Michał Mirosław
2011-02-16  2:59 ` [PATCH v6 3/9] ethtool: factorize ethtool_get_strings() and ethtool_get_sset_count() Michał Mirosław
2011-02-16  2:59 ` [PATCH v6 1/9] ethtool: move EXPORT_SYMBOL(ethtool_op_set_tx_csum) to correct place Michał Mirosław
2011-02-16  2:59 ` [PATCH v6 6/9] net: ethtool: use ndo_fix_features for offload setting Michał Mirosław
2011-02-16  2:59 ` [PATCH v6 4/9] ethtool: factorize get/set_one_feature Michał Mirosław
2011-02-16  2:59 ` [PATCH v6 5/9] net: Introduce new feature setting ops Michał Mirosław
2011-02-16  2:59 ` [PATCH v6 8/9] net: introduce NETIF_F_RXCSUM Michał Mirosław
2011-02-16  2:59 ` [PATCH v6 9/9] loopback: convert to hw_features Michał Mirosław
2011-02-16  2:59 ` [PATCH v6 7/9] net: use ndo_fix_features for ethtool_ops->set_flags Michał Mirosław
2011-02-17 22:56 ` [PATCH v6 0/9] net: Unified offload configuration David Miller
2011-02-18 14:22   ` Michał Mirosław
2011-02-18 14:29     ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2011-02-18 19:27       ` Michał Mirosław
2011-02-18 20:06       ` David Miller
2011-02-19 12:28         ` Michał Mirosław
2011-02-19 12:46         ` [PATCH 1/1] Fix "(unregistered net_device): Features changed" message Michał Mirosław
2011-02-22 14:42         ` [PATCH] net: avoid initial "Features " Michał Mirosław
2011-02-22 14:43           ` Michał Mirosław

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