On Wed, 2016-06-15 at 14:37 +0200, Martin Willi wrote: > > > > > > > printk(KERN_INFO "mac80211_hwsim: wmediumd released netlink" > > > " socket, switching to perfect channel medium\n"); > > > I wonder if we can do something better about them? Or perhaps if we > > should remove them, so other namespaces won't mess up the kernel > > log > > This is in fact not very nice, but not specific to hwsim. Any > namespace > can mess up the kernel log from different (networking) subsystems. > This > has been discussed some time ago [1], but AFAIK there is no real > solution so far. > > For this patch I think we have the following options: > * Keep the printk() messages as proposed > * Remove those callable from non-initial namespaces completely > * Suppress them when called from non-initial namespaces > * Include the associated "netgroup" in the message > > I personally would prefer the first option, as this problem is not > specific to hwsim or mac80211, but many subsystems. So we certainly > can > add some work-around, but there is not much to gain if other modules > don't. >
Fair enough. johannes
