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Message-ID: <1421856321.10574.13.camel@perches.com>
Date:	Wed, 21 Jan 2015 08:05:21 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@...e.fr>,
	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>,
	Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@...il.com>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>,
	Daniel Mack <daniel@...que.org>
Subject: unclear ipv6 redirect message (was Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] mfd:
 lubbock_io: add lubbock_io board)

(adding netdev)

On Wed, 2015-01-21 at 09:44 +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 08:46:29AM +0100, Robert Jarzmik wrote:
> > Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk> writes:
> > 
> > > What I'd suggest (and always have done) is:
> > >
> > > 	dev_err(&pdev->dev, "couldn't request main irq%d: %d\n",
> > > 		irq, ret);
> > I like it, it's even more compact, I'll use it for next patch version.
> 
> BTW, this is an example why I have the policy of always ensuring that
> the kernel messages print sufficient diagnostics.  Right now, I have
> a problem - since I rebooted my firewall a few nights ago, I now get
> on one of my machines:
> 
>   rt6_redirect: source isn't a valid nexthop for redirect target
> 
> and it spews that for a few minutes every 26 hours or so.  No further
> information, and it leaves you wondering "well, what was the invalid
> next hop?  What was the source?"
> 
> Pretty much the only way to try and find out is to leave a tcpdump or
> wireshark running for 24 hours to try and get a dump - which is not
> that easy if you don't have lots of disk space.  So, right now, I have
> no way to diagnose the above.
> 
> If it printed that information, then I'd be able to see what the
> addresses were, and I'd probably be able to come up with a tcpdump
> filter which didn't involve logging all IPv6 traffic.
> 
> Kernel messages need to be smart.  If not, they might as well just be
> "The kernel encountered a problem. Abort, Retry or Fail?"
> 



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