Re: annoying frequent overcurrent messages.

[Alan Stern]

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Ray Lee wrote:

> > > For the syslog spamming, you could jus emit the message once when the
> > > state is first noticed, then emit a everything good message when it
> > > clears up. There's no need to log it repeatedly during the problem
> > > period.
> >
> > That's almost exactly how the driver behaves currently -- the message is
> > printed just once when the state is first noticed.  Nothing is printed
> > when the state is cleared, and nothing gets printed repeatedly during the
> > problem period.  But then the problem recurs very quickly.
> 
> Then the logging of the 'all cleared up' message would be better if it
> had a bit of hysteresis to it -- the good state is noticed, but don't
> log it as such until it hangs out there for a while and has had a
> chance to quiesce.

You didn't read what I wrote -- there _is_ no "all cleared up" message.

Alan Stern

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