Re: [Powerpc-utils-devel] [PATCH] scripts/snap: Ignore deprecated /proc/ network files

[Kamalesh B. <kam...@li...>]

On 05/14/2015 04:29 PM, Naveen N. Rao wrote:
>> Teach snap to ignore deprecated sysctl network files, while
>> >gathering information from /proc. Reading deprecated file,
>> >throws warnings in /var/log/message like:
>> >kernel: process `snap' is using deprecated sysctl (syscall)
>> >net.ipv6.neigh.default.retrans_time; Use net.ipv6.neigh.default.retrans_time_ms instead.`
> Are you sure you want to ignore these just to prevent those warnings?
> Those could still be used by older applications and kernel will still
> effect changes based on these.

Both retrans_time and retrans_time_ms behave synonymously. i.e., if you 
modify one file the value gets reflected in another.
We can avoid the warning from snap, by copying the non deprecated 
version and still we could have the required debugging
information.

Thanks,,
Kamalesh.