From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/25] netfilter: nf_ct_helper: allow to disable automatic helper assignment Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 21:34:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20120507.213418.1633667612399402231.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1336436539-5880-1-git-send-email-pablo@netfilter.org> <1336436539-5880-3-git-send-email-pablo@netfilter.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: pablo@netfilter.org Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:53184 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758046Ab2EHBf3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2012 21:35:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1336436539-5880-3-git-send-email-pablo@netfilter.org> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: pablo@netfilter.org Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 02:21:56 +0200 > + if (!net->ct.helper_sysctl_header) { > + printk(KERN_ERR "nf_conntrack_helper: can't register to sysctl.\n"); > + goto out_register; > + } Please use pr_err(). > + printk(KERN_INFO "nf_conntrack: automatic helper " > + "assignment is deprecated. Please, read " > + "http://www.netfilter.org/news.html#2012-04-03\n"); > + net->ct.auto_assign_helper_warned = true; Please use pr_info(). Pointers to web sites to explain a problem is absolutely not appropriate in kernel log messages, nor commit messages. Either add a document to the kernel tree, or explain things fully both in the kernel log message and the commit message.