Re: [PATCH] Fix bogus "callbacks suppressed" messages

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Oct 05 2012 - 11:37:08 EST


On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 05:29:48PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 07:26:39AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > I don't have a problem with this patch, but I don't understand why
> > it's now showing up. There haven't been any changes in the ratelimit.h
> > area recently that I can see, so why is this change needed now? What
> > is in the tty layer that is causing this, just the fact that it's
> > actually being used now?
>
> >From my quick semi-skilled git history browsing, I'd say it's
> 5d4121c04b357 which added the WARN_RATELIMIT to tty_init_dev during the
> current merge window.

So WARN_RATELIMIT was never working properly? If so, how far back does
it go in kernel releases that this should be fixed?

thanks,

greg k-h
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