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Message-ID: <89c60b9f14e3450f14a5337e8dfd6c3972c7be22.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:10:50 +0100
From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>, kuba@...nel.org,
davem@...emloft.net
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org,
edumazet@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1 2/2] net/core: refactor promiscuous mode
message
On Tue, 2023-02-14 at 13:01 -0800, Jesse Brandeburg wrote:
> The kernel stack can be more consistent by printing the IFF_PROMISC
> aka promiscuous enable/disable messages with the standard netdev_info
> message which can include bus and driver info as well as the device.
>
> typical command usage from user space looks like:
> ip link set eth0 promisc <on|off>
>
> But lots of utilities such as bridge, tcpdump, etc put the interface into
> promiscuous mode.
>
> old message:
> [ 406.034418] device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
> [ 408.424703] device eth0 left promiscuous mode
>
> new message:
> [ 406.034431] ice 0000:17:00.0 eth0: entered promiscuous mode
> [ 408.424715] ice 0000:17:00.0 eth0: left promiscuous mode
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
> ---
> I'm unsure about this one because it's changing a long standard kernel
> message to a slightly different format. I think the new way looks better
> and has more information.
I guess the relevant question here is if such kind of messages are
somewhat implicitly part of uAPI.
AFAIK the answer is "no", at least for info-level msg, so the patch
LGTM.
Thanks,
Paolo
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