netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: route: remove duplicated string from error message

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Date:   Sun, 13 Jan 2019 09:08:56 -0700
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>,
        davem@...emloft.net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: route: remove duplicated string from error
 message

On 1/12/19 2:07 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sat, 2019-01-12 at 12:45 -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>> "IPv6: " prefix is already added by pr_fmt, no need to include
>> it again in the pr_warn() format.
> []
>> diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
> []
>> @@ -4256,7 +4256,7 @@ static void ip6_print_replace_route_err(struct list_head *rt6_nh_list)
>>  	struct rt6_nh *nh;
>>  
>>  	list_for_each_entry(nh, rt6_nh_list, next) {
>> -		pr_warn("IPV6: multipath route replace failed (check consistency of installed routes): %pI6c nexthop %pI6c ifi %d\n",
>> +		pr_warn("multipath route replace failed (check consistency of installed routes): %pI6c nexthop %pI6c ifi %d\n",
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Just asking, couldn't this emit a rather long list?
> Perhaps it should be ratelimited?
> 
> 

That should be converted to an extack message now.