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Date:	Wed, 2 Nov 2011 00:05:50 +0200
From:	Daniel Baluta <dbaluta@...acom.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, gregory.v.rose@...el.com,
	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] neigh: print nud_state in neigh timer handler.

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 11:44 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Daniel Baluta <dbaluta@...acom.com>
> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:10:48 +0200
>
>> From: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@...il.com>
>>
>> For debugging purposes it is useful to know the exact state of a
>> non NUD_IN_TIMER neighbour entry whose timer handler just expired.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Baluta <dbaluta@...acom.com>
>
> This debugging log message is dubious.
>
> Also, it is protected by !SMP and I can almost guarentee you that whatever
> condition makes it happen leigitmately on SMP also can be triggered with
> preemption enabled on !SMP.
>
> So I'm going to simply remove this debug message entirely instead.

Agree. If you can figure out when this condition is true, it is nice
to have a comment.

Daniel.
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