Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] sctp: Consolidate and ratelimit deprecation warnings

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On Mon, 2013-12-23 at 08:29 -0500, Neil Horman wrote:
> The SCTP protocol has several deprecation warnings in its setsockopt path that
> can be triggered by unprivlidged users.  Since these are not ratelimited, we can
> spam the logs quite easily here.  Since these are all deprecation warnings, and
> that type of warning isn't uncommon in the rest of the kernel, lets make a
> common pr_warn_deprecated macro to produce somewhat generalized ratelimited
> deprecation warnings easily
[...]

No objection to these changes, but I think deprecation warnings should
log at least the command name and maybe also the pid of the caller.

Ben.

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