On Mon, 2013-12-23 at 08:29 -0500, Neil Horman wrote: > The SCTP protocol has several deprecation warnings in its setsockopt path that > can be triggered by unprivlidged users. Since these are not ratelimited, we > can > spam the logs quite easily here. Since these are all deprecation warnings, > and > that type of warning isn't uncommon in the rest of the kernel, lets make a > common pr_warn_deprecated macro to produce somewhat generalized ratelimited > deprecation warnings easily [...]
No objection to these changes, but I think deprecation warnings should log at least the command name and maybe also the pid of the caller. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
