Stephen Hemminger wrote: >On Sun, 08 May 2005 11:44:32 +0800 >Alan Tam <Tam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >>This is part of my dmesg output which is generated whenever some network >>topology changes. It is very annoying. Any ways for me to inhibit those >>which are only informational but not warnings which I need to take care? >>I am running the all bridges on tap* interfaces emulated by OpenVPN. I >>am running stock 2.6.8 kernel from Debian sarge. >> >> >The easiest way would be to change all those printk's you don't want to see >in the br_stp_if.c from: > printk(KERN_INFO "%s: port ... >to > printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: port ... > >then they will show up only in /var/log/messages. > > Yes, but recompiling the kernel is not a good thing to me. I think "echo 5 > /proc/sys/kernel/printk" is acceptable. The reason it isn't the default is probably that most part of the kernel won't be so verbose. -- Regards, Alan
