Re: annoying frequent overcurrent messages.

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 01:19:43PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
 > On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Dave Jones wrote:
 > 
 > > we could at least rate-limit the messages.
 > 
 > That's true for every message in the kernel.  How do you decide which 
 > messages to rate-limit?

anything the user doesn't have any means of fixing should be able to be
ignored. With dmesg filled with these, it's hard to ignore them.

 > Note that this particular message will cause problems only in the presence 
 > of defective hardware.

Defective it may be, I'm not arguing that.    But spewing hundreds of
these an hour isn't going to make the user fix the problem (if they even can)
any faster.

*grumbles and goes to edit modprobe.conf*

		Dave

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