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

[Jesse Gross]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme at nicira.com> wrote:
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> On Apr 24, 2014, at 3:32 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> That makes me nervous--it poses the temptation of changing behavior in
>> some other way, not just log-wise.
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> How about a specific netlink (DP) command to set the logging level and invoking it before and after probing?

I guess something seems vaguely wrong about this to me - it seems to
assume too much about the kernel implementation.