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Message-ID: <1415633215.8868.4.camel@perches.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 07:26:55 -0800
From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To: nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com
Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Remi Denis-Courmont <courmisch@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next] net: Convert LIMIT_NETDEBUG to
net_dbg_ratelimited
On Mon, 2014-11-10 at 15:27 +0100, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
> Le 09/11/2014 20:17, Joe Perches a écrit :
> > Use the more common dynamic_debug capable net_dbg_ratelimited
> > and remove the LIMIT_NETDEBUG macro.
> >
> > This may have some negative impact on messages that were
> > emitted at KERN_INFO that are not not enabled at all unless
> > DEBUG is defined or dynamic_debug is enabled. Even so,
> > these messages are now _not_ emitted by default.
> >
> > This eliminates the use of the net_msg_warn sysctl
> > "/proc/sys/net/core/warnings".
[]
> > diff --git a/include/net/sock.h b/include/net/sock.h
[]
> > @@ -2276,13 +2276,7 @@ bool sk_ns_capable(const struct sock *sk,
> > bool sk_capable(const struct sock *sk, int cap);
> > bool sk_net_capable(const struct sock *sk, int cap);
> >
> > -/*
> > - * Enable debug/info messages
> > - */
> > -extern int net_msg_warn;
> > -#define LIMIT_NETDEBUG(fmt, args...) \
> > - do { if (net_msg_warn && net_ratelimit()) printk(fmt,##args); } while(0)
> > -
> > +extern int net_msg_warn; /* Unused, but still a sysctl */
> Why not removing this variable from this header and from net/core/utils.c?
> Just declaring a static variable in net/core/sysctl_net_core.c should be enough.
> Am I missing something?
No. It's reasonable to remove its EXPORT_SYMBOL use too.
First let's see if there are any objections to the removal.
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