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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Janice M Girouard <janiceg@us.ibm.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
	netdev@oss.sgi.com, Daniel Stekloff <stekloff@us.ibm.com>,
	Janice Girouard <girouard@us.ibm.com>,
	Larry Kessler <lkessler@us.ibm.com>,
	kenistonj@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: patch for common networking error messages
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 18:52:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EEE4A1A.6010904@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EEE492E.9080308@pobox.com>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-16 22:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-16 20:30 patch for common networking error messages Janice M Girouard
2003-06-16 20:38 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-16 20:53   ` Andi Kleen
2003-06-16 20:51     ` David S. Miller
2003-06-16 22:27       ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-17  7:09         ` Andi Kleen
2003-06-17  7:20           ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-16 20:59   ` Janice M Girouard
2003-06-16 22:48     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-06-16 22:52       ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-06-16 22:13 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2003-06-16 22:13   ` David S. Miller
2003-06-16 22:50     ` Nivedita Singhvi
2003-06-16 22:57       ` David S. Miller
2003-06-16 23:02   ` Donald Becker
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-06-16 22:29 Janice Girouard
2003-06-16 22:27 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-16 22:45   ` Nivedita Singhvi
2003-06-16 22:52     ` David S. Miller
2003-06-17  0:07       ` Nivedita Singhvi
2003-06-16 22:50 Janice Girouard
2003-06-16 22:55 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-21 12:36   ` Alan Cox
2003-06-21 14:27     ` Jamal Hadi
2003-06-23  0:46     ` David S. Miller
2003-06-23 11:54       ` Alan Cox
2003-06-17  0:44 Janice Girouard
2003-06-17  1:19 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-17 14:34   ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2003-06-17  2:12 Janice Girouard
2003-06-17  4:34 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-06-17 16:08   ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-06-17 16:09     ` David S. Miller
2003-06-17 18:46       ` Jeff Garzik
2003-06-17 19:06         ` Janice M Girouard
2003-06-17 19:23           ` Jeff Garzik
2003-06-17 19:46             ` Janice M Girouard
2003-06-17 19:50               ` David S. Miller
2003-06-17 20:24                 ` Janice M Girouard
2003-06-17 20:27                   ` David S. Miller
2003-06-17 20:40 Janice Girouard
2003-06-17 20:42 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-17 20:57 Janice Girouard
2003-06-17 21:14 ` David S. Miller

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