Re: [2.6 PATCH] visor: Make URB limit error more visible

From: Alan Cox
Date: Sun Nov 28 2004 - 13:16:56 EST


On Iau, 2004-11-25 at 16:16, Roger Luethi wrote:
> There is only one call to dev_dbg in all of visor.c, the rest is dbg or
> dev_err. It already bit us once when warnings didn't turn up in a debug
> log. I would argue that a flood of those warnings will warrant report
> and inspection anyway (broken app, broken driver, or lame DoS attempt),
> so I replaced the dev_dbg with dev_err.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roger Luethi <rl@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Since it is trivially user caused should it not be rate limited or it
becomes a DoS of its own to the syslog

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