On 2/2/21 5:30 AM, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote: > > Also, if the message is a common one, one may not be able to easily > distinguish them. Ideally this shouldn't happen, but when debugging > applications such as OVS, where lots of netlink requests are flying, > it saves us time. I can, for example, look at a perf capture and > search for cls_flower or so. Otherwise, it will all show up as > "af_netlink: <err_msg>"
Modules should be using the NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD variant, so the message would be ""af_netlink: cls_flower: <err_msg>" I get the value in knowing the call site, so not arguing against that. Just hoping that your experience matches theory.
