HI,
By the way, since there are many rules in the SMI that says some thing like, "this is OK if it comes from a MIB module written following the rules in SMIv1 and converted to SMIv2", there is no set of checking that can be performed on any MIB module. That is, one must perform strict checking, and then look at the results and turn off individual items after they have been verified to be OK.
But, I'm sure you already knew this.
At 01:11 PM 2/19/2003 +0100, Frank Strauss wrote:
Hi!
Juergen> On the mreview@ops.ietf.org list, I suggested to add a new error Juergen> level 7 for "esoteric notices". The idea is to change the default Juergen> error to level 7 for those warnings which the IETF MIB review Juergen> guidelines document considers to be not important or noise (such as Juergen> namelength-32 or case-redefinitions).
Juergen> This means that MIB reviewers following the IETF guidelines can simply Juergen> run `smilint -c /dev/null -l 6' to get the right amount of warnings Juergen> produced.
Juergen> Frank, do you agree with this chance? [...]
I have no objection against this proposal and I think it would give a majority (as far as I can tell) of smilint users the chance to have a straight line between interesting and non-interesting errors/warnings. So, it's good and I agree.
However, I think *in general* the space of error checks is "multi-dimensional" and cannot easily be devided into interesting and non-interesting checks by a one-dimensional threshold. But following the XP style, I'm fine with what we have (and the addition of level 7). :-)
-frank
Regards, /david t. perkins