Re: ip_set: protocol %u message -- useful?

[Ilia Mirkin]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:32:45AM -0800, Cong Wang wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 2:30 AM, Jozsef Kadlecsik
>> <kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 13 Feb 2014, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
>> >> messages in my dmesg. This might be because of some local
>> >> configuration changes I've made, or perhaps a kernel upgrade. Either
>> >> way, it appears this message has been a pr_notice since the original
>> >> code added it in a7b4f989a62 ("netfilter: ipset: IP set core
>> >> support").
>> >>
>> >> Does this message provide a lot of value? Or could it be made into a pr_debug?
>> >
>> > That's a report message on the protocol version used by the ipset
>> > subsystem. There was (and possibly will be) multiple protocols, so it
>> > helps to catch basic userpsace/kernelspace communication issues.
>>
>> But still it doesn't deserve a pr_notice()... pr_info() should be enough.
>
> Maybe printing "using protocol version X" will make it appear less like
> a debugging message referring to packet contents or something similar.

With pr_info it'll still appear in dmesg, and it'll still be "random
non-sensical message appears over and over in dmesg" type of
situation, to the vast majority of users. Do we need a print every
time someone creates a new tcp connection too? I'm still not totally
clear on the cause of this message getting printed, but I was seeing
it a whole bunch in my configuration...

>
>> diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
>> b/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
>> index de770ec..5ea063f 100644
>> --- a/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
>> +++ b/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
>> @@ -1945,7 +1945,7 @@ ip_set_net_init(struct net *net)
>>                 return -ENOMEM;
>>         inst->is_deleted = 0;
>>         rcu_assign_pointer(inst->ip_set_list, list);
>> -       pr_notice("ip_set: protocol %u\n", IPSET_PROTOCOL);
>> +       pr_info("ip_set: protocol %u\n", IPSET_PROTOCOL);
>>         return 0;
>>  }
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