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Message-ID: <1387839316.1635.8.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.level5networks.com> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 22:55:16 +0000 From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com> To: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com> CC: <linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org>, Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>, "David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] sctp: Consolidate and ratelimit deprecation warnings On Mon, 2013-12-23 at 08:29 -0500, Neil Horman wrote: > The SCTP protocol has several deprecation warnings in its setsockopt path that > can be triggered by unprivlidged users. Since these are not ratelimited, we can > spam the logs quite easily here. Since these are all deprecation warnings, and > that type of warning isn't uncommon in the rest of the kernel, lets make a > common pr_warn_deprecated macro to produce somewhat generalized ratelimited > deprecation warnings easily [...] No objection to these changes, but I think deprecation warnings should log at least the command name and maybe also the pid of the caller. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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