Re: [PATCH 2.6.11.2][RFC] printk with anti-cluttering-feature

[Michael Tokarev]

Bodo Eggert wrote:
> (I hope I avoided all spam-keywords this time, my previous mails didn't 
>  seem to make it)
> (please CC me on reply)
>
> Issue:
>
> On some conditions, the dmesg is spammed with repeated warnings about the
> same issue which is neither critical nor going to be fixed. This may
> result in losing the boot messages or missing other important messages.

There's printk_ratelimit() already, used in quite several places in kernel
(or net_ratelimit() for net/* stuff).  See also Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt,
search for printk_ratelimit.  JFYI.

/mjt
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