[ovs-dev] Datapath kern log msg key attribute error

[Jesse Gross]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 02:57:28PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
>> I suppose the other possibility is to pass some kind of flag attribute
>> with messages indicating that this is a test probe and would silence
>> logging. Existing kernels would ignore this so they would still log
>> but the behavior would be otherwise unchanged.
>
> That makes me nervous--it poses the temptation of changing behavior in
> some other way, not just log-wise.

I agree. I'm not sure what that change would be but it seems generally
better if the kernel was completely oblivious to the fact that it is
being tested so there is no possibility of a behavior difference.