netdev - Re: v2: [PATCH 2/3] netdevice: Fix promiscuity and allmulti overflow

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Date:	Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:54:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	wangchen@...fujitsu.com
Cc:	kaber@...sh.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: v2: [PATCH 2/3] netdevice: Fix promiscuity and allmulti
 overflow

From: Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:51:00 +0800

> Patrick McHardy said the following on 2008-6-17 20:59:
> >> +            printk(KERN_ERR "%s: promiscuity touches roof, "
> >> +                "set promiscuity failed, promiscuity feature "
> >> +                "of device will be broken.\n", dev->name);
> >> +            return -EOVERFLOW;
> >> +        }
> >> +    }
> > 
> > Assuming the caller does proper error handling, that printk is
> > not true.
> > 
> 
> Yes.
> But currently, no caller handling this, and I think even if I make
> some callers to handle this, but there maybe some callers and their
> callers do not want to handle error condition.
> So I need a KERN_WARNING here.
> If some day, all of the caller handle the error properly, we can
> remove this printk.
> 
> Here is v3:

Patrick, ACK?
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