netdev - Re: [PATCH] netlink: downgrade warning about leftover bytes to debug level

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Message-ID: <53859359.70304@6wind.com>
Date:	Wed, 28 May 2014 09:42:17 +0200
From:	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
To:	Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@...hat.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netlink: downgrade warning about leftover bytes to debug
 level

Le 27/05/2014 15:16, Michal Schmidt a écrit :
> Any process is able to send netlink messages with leftover bytes, so
> downgrade the warning message to pr_debug in order to avoid possible
> kernel log spam.
Yes, but that's not a normal case. I think that the level warning is good,
there is something wrong with this kind of messages.
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