ipv6: lower "link become ready"'s level message
This following message is printed in the console each time a network device configured with an IPv6 addresses is ready to be used: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): <iface>: link becomes ready When netns are being extensively used -- e.g. by re-creating netns' with veth to discuss with each others for testing purposes like mptcp_join.sh selftest does -- it generates a lot of messages like that: more than 700 when executing mptcp_join.sh with the latest version. It looks like this message is not that helpful after all: maybe it can be used as a sign to know if there is something wrong, e.g. if a device is being regularly reconfigured by accident? But even then, there are better ways to monitor and diagnose such issues. When looking at commit 3c21edbd ("[IPV6]: Defer IPv6 device initialization until the link becomes ready.") which introduces this new message, it seems it had been added to verify that the new feature was working as expected. It could have then used a lower level than "info" from the beginning but it was fine like that back then: 17 years ago. It seems then OK today to simply lower its level, similar to commit 7c62b8dd ("net/ipv6: lower the level of "link is not ready" messages") and as suggested by Mat [1], Stephen and David [2]. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/mptcp/614e76ac-184e-c553-af72-084f792e60b0@kernel.org/T/ [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/68035bad-b53e-91cb-0e4a-007f27d62b05@tessares.net/T/ [2] Suggested-by: Mat Martineau <martineau@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Suggested-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@tessares.net> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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