netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next RFC] net: skip printing "link become ready" v6 msg

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Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2023 10:42:20 +0200
From: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@...sares.net>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
 Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc: mptcp@...ts.linux.dev, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Mat Martineau <martineau@...nel.org>,
 Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next RFC] net: skip printing "link become ready" v6
 msg

Hi Stephen, David,

On 01/06/2023 19:43, David Ahern wrote:
> On 6/1/23 11:37 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>> On Thu, 01 Jun 2023 16:34:36 +0200
>> Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@...sares.net> wrote:
>>
>>> This following message is printed in the console each time a network
>>> device configured with an IPv6 addresses is ready to be used:
>>>
>>>   ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): <iface>: link becomes ready
>>>
>>> When netns are being extensively used -- e.g. by re-creating netns with
>>> veth to discuss with each other for testing purposes like mptcp_join.sh
>>> selftest does -- it generates a lot of messages: more than 700 when
>>> executing mptcp_join.sh with the latest version.
>>
>> Don't add yet another network nerd knob.
>> Just change message from pr_info to pr_debug.
> 
> +1

Thank you both for your quick replies! I will send a patch doing that.

Cheers,
Matt
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