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From: Stefan Hanreich <s.hanreich@proxmox.com>
To: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>, pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: Re: [pve-devel] [PATCH common] inotify: avoid cyclic use statement
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 13:33:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <369a423b-57d7-4ad5-a9f8-4b758ca55c75@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <75bd9a19-1194-4a9b-9191-b3ead256e152@proxmox.com>

On 11/11/24 13:10, Fiona Ebner wrote:
>>> The rest of the PVE::INotify module alredy uses syslog(), which could
>>> be used here as well to get rid of the cyclic usage. Wolfgang argued
>>> that the whole point of commit e68ebda was to remove coupling between
>>> the name and the type of the interface. If there still is some code
>>> about a name starting with 'vmbr' being classified wrong, that should
>>> rather be fixed. Because of the very commit, the frontend already
>>> doesn't show e.g. a non-bridge with name 'vmbr7' in bridge selectors.
> 
> If we keep it, syslog() is better than warn here. But why is it better
> for the check to be there than not (like Wolfgang suggested)?

It was intended as a safety net, so we can catch potentially odd setups.
Iirc no one ever reported seeing that warning, so I guess it passed the
scream test.

So, removing this check is fine by me.


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  reply	other threads:[~2024-11-11 12:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-08-02 11:53 Fiona Ebner
2024-11-11 11:49 ` Stefan Hanreich
2024-11-11 12:10   ` Fiona Ebner
2024-11-11 12:33     ` Stefan Hanreich [this message]
2024-11-11 12:37 ` [pve-devel] applied: " Thomas Lamprecht

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