Commit 7c62b8dd authored Jan 21, 2019 by Lubomir Rintel Committed by David S. Miller Jan 22, 2019

net/ipv6: lower the level of "link is not ready" messages



This message gets logged far too often for how interesting is it.

Most distributions nowadays configure NetworkManager to use randomly
generated MAC addresses for Wi-Fi network scans. The interfaces end up
being periodically brought down for the address change. When they're
subsequently brought back up, the message is logged, eventually flooding
the log.

Perhaps the message is not all that helpful: it seems to be more
interesting to hear when the addrconf actually start, not when it does
not. Let's lower its level.

Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
Acked-By: Thomas Haller <thaller@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent 17b42a20

net/ipv6/addrconf.c

+2 −2

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -3495,7 +3495,7 @@ static int addrconf_notify(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event,

		if (!addrconf_link_ready(dev)) {
		/* device is not ready yet. */
		pr_info("ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): %s: link is not ready\n",
		pr_debug("ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): %s: link is not ready\n",
		dev->name);
		break;
		}

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