From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: dvlasenk@redhat.com
Cc: hannes@stressinduktion.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru,
jmorris@namei.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, kaber@trash.net,
jpirko@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next v2] ipv6: log autoconfiguration failures
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:24:03 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131212.122403.548901877993258405.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52A99DD0.9030007@redhat.com>
From: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:28:16 +0100
> Admins want to know why ipv6 autoconf didn't work, not so much
> how many times it didn't work. This requires a text message.
Again, they don't get this for ARP, or any other similar event. Why
is ipv6 autoconf so damn special that it demands unique treatment?
I do not want each subsystem to decide their own custom way to
notify people that some interesting event happened. That's the
worst possible user experience.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-12 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-11 11:45 [patch net-next v2] ipv6: log autoconfiguration failures Denys Vlasenko
2013-12-11 19:21 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-12-11 20:54 ` David Miller
2013-12-11 21:09 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-12-12 11:28 ` Denys Vlasenko
2013-12-12 17:24 ` David Miller [this message]
2013-12-12 11:17 ` Denys Vlasenko
2013-12-12 17:22 ` David Miller
2013-12-12 17:58 ` Vlad Yasevich
2013-12-12 18:24 ` David Miller
2013-12-12 19:00 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-12-12 19:06 ` David Miller
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