Re: [PATCH] net: Remove a noisy printk

[Patrick McHardy]

Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>
> > I agree that it doesn't belong to the generic networking code.
> > But the way its handled in netfilter is far from perfect as well.
> > Currently multiple modules will spam the ringbuffer repeatedly,
> > but offer no possibility to change anything in the behaviour of
> > how these packets are treated. Unfortunately we can't handle this
> > in the ruleset (which is exactly the reason why we're spamming
> > the ringbuffer), so how about we add a module option controlling
> > how to treat those packets and remove the printk?
>
> How about this: let the printk be removed from conntrack and the mangle 
> table but put (back) into the filter table with a module option, which 
> controls the behaviour (drop/accept & log/nolog)?

Sounds fine to me. We can't log it in the usual way though
(ipt_LOG/nfnetlink_log) and spamming the ringbuffer should
really be a last resort, so I'd prefer to limit it to print
the message exactly once.
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