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Matthieu Baerts f69de8aa47 ipv6: lower "link become ready"'s level message
This following message is printed in the console each time a network
device configured with an IPv6 addresses is ready to be used:

  ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): <iface>: link becomes ready

When netns are being extensively used -- e.g. by re-creating netns' with
veth to discuss with each others for testing purposes like mptcp_join.sh
selftest does -- it generates a lot of messages like that: more than 700
when executing mptcp_join.sh with the latest version.

It looks like this message is not that helpful after all: maybe it can
be used as a sign to know if there is something wrong, e.g. if a device
is being regularly reconfigured by accident? But even then, there are
better ways to monitor and diagnose such issues.

When looking at commit 3c21edbd11 ("[IPV6]: Defer IPv6 device
initialization until the link becomes ready.") which introduces this new
message, it seems it had been added to verify that the new feature was
working as expected. It could have then used a lower level than "info"
from the beginning but it was fine like that back then: 17 years ago.

It seems then OK today to simply lower its level, similar to commit
7c62b8dd5c ("net/ipv6: lower the level of "link is not ready" messages")
and as suggested by Mat [1], Stephen and David [2].

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/mptcp/614e76ac-184e-c553-af72-084f792e60b0@kernel.org/T/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/68035bad-b53e-91cb-0e4a-007f27d62b05@tessares.net/T/ [2]
Suggested-by: Mat Martineau <martineau@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Suggested-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@tessares.net>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2023-06-04 15:39:10 +01:00
arch Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2023-06-01 15:38:26 -07:00
block block: make bio_check_eod work for zero sized devices 2023-05-24 08:19:26 -06:00
certs KEYS: Add missing function documentation 2023-04-24 16:15:52 +03:00
crypto This push fixes the following problems: 2023-05-07 10:57:14 -07:00
Documentation dt-bindings: net: pse-pd: Allow -N suffix for ethernet-pse node names 2023-06-01 21:38:28 -07:00
drivers net: lan743x: Remove extranous gotos 2023-06-02 10:48:48 +01:00
fs fork, vhost: Use CLONE_THREAD to fix freezer/ps regression 2023-06-01 17:15:33 -04:00
include net: phylib: fix phy_read*_poll_timeout() 2023-06-02 23:20:31 -07:00
init Objtool changes for v6.4: 2023-04-28 14:02:54 -07:00
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mm mm: fix zswap writeback race condition 2023-05-17 15:24:33 -07:00
net ipv6: lower "link become ready"'s level message 2023-06-04 15:39:10 +01:00
rust Rust changes for v6.4 2023-04-30 11:20:22 -07:00
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scripts bpf-next-for-netdev 2023-05-16 19:50:05 -07:00
security integrity-v6.4 2023-04-29 10:11:32 -07:00
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tools tools: ynl-gen: generate static descriptions of notifications 2023-06-02 22:10:47 -07:00
usr initramfs: Check negative timestamp to prevent broken cpio archive 2023-04-16 17:37:01 +09:00
virt KVM: Fix vcpu_array[0] races 2023-05-19 13:56:26 -04:00
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CREDITS MAINTAINERS: sctp: move Neil to CREDITS 2023-05-12 08:51:32 +01:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2023-06-01 15:38:26 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.4-rc4 2023-05-28 07:49:00 -04:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.