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Re: patch for common networking error messages

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Subject: Re: patch for common networking error messages
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 18:52:10 -0400
Cc: Janice M Girouard <janiceg@xxxxxxxxxx>, "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, Daniel Stekloff <stekloff@xxxxxxxxxx>, Janice Girouard <girouard@xxxxxxxxxx>, Larry Kessler <lkessler@xxxxxxxxxx>, kenistonj@xxxxxxxxxx
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Jeff Garzik wrote:
3) _Somebody_ needs to do some "ground pounding", and figure out what info sysadmins and users want to see. Event logging in general, so far, seems to me more like a management checklist item than a real user need... but I am quite willing to be proved wrong. Until we get feedback along these lines, I tend to resist changes like this in general. My initial read of your attached patch was that it was a long of source churn, and I couldn't fathom what any user would gain from it

make that "a lot of"


There are a whole bunch of netif_msg_xxx and corresponding NETIF_MSG_xxx bits. I don't see much need to change that I think getting the logging API right for those would be an important first step.

    Jeff

arg :)  I should fire my editor.

        Jeff




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