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

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Date:   Mon, 14 Jan 2019 10:38:53 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
To:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Cc:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: route: remove duplicated string from error
 message

On Sun, 13 Jan 2019 09:08:56 -0700, David Ahern wrote:
> 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.

I assumed the information from the format is of importance.  
Let me respin then.