From 7cecb523adedcaf8acba5e14d47559d8bc3f40d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vinson Lee <vlee@twitter.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:32:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] net: Downgrade CAP_SYS_MODULE deprecated message from error
to warning.
Make logging level consistent with other deprecation messages in net
subsystem.
Signed-off-by: Vinson Lee <vlee@twitter.com>
Cc: David Mackey <tdmackey@twitter.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
net/core/dev.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 6df214041a5e5..84f01ba81a346 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1136,8 +1136,8 @@ void dev_load(struct net *net, const char *name)
no_module = request_module("netdev-%s", name);
if (no_module && capable(CAP_SYS_MODULE)) {
if (!request_module("%s", name))
- pr_err("Loading kernel module for a network device with CAP_SYS_MODULE (deprecated). Use CAP_NET_ADMIN and alias netdev-%s instead.\n",
- name);
+ pr_warn("Loading kernel module for a network device with CAP_SYS_MODULE (deprecated). Use CAP_NET_ADMIN and alias netdev-%s instead.\n",
+ name);
}
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_load);