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

[Naveen N. R. <nav...@li...>]

On 2015/05/14 09:16PM, Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

Ah, nice.
Assuming we're only skipping these files under /proc/sys and/or chances 
of similarly named files in paths we care about is none:
Acked-by: Naveen N. Rao <nav...@li...>

Thanks,
Naveen