Re: printk_ratelimited() not compiling

[john stultz]

On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 15:23 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 14:36 -0800, john stultz wrote: 
> > > Am I missing something obvious, or did something get broken after this went in?
> > Ok. Solved it. I needed to #include <linux/ratelimit.h> in the file I
> > was adding the printk_ratelimited usage in, rather then where
> > printk_ratelimited is defined.
> > 
> > Maybe would it be better to move the printk_ratelimited definitions into
> > ratelimit.h so this would be more obvious?
> 
> That's one option.
> 
> Probably the only places I tried it had an
> #include <linux/net.h> somewhere which does an
> #include <linux/ratelimit.h>
> 
> Personally, I think it'd be better to put
> #include <linux/ratelimit.h> back in kernel.h
> Commit 3fff4c42bd0a89869a0eb1e7874cc06ffa4aa0f5 removed it.

Right, that's what I tried first, but it doesn't build. :)

If ratelimit.h has to be included for it to work (which is fine by me),
it seems ratelimit.h would be the ideal place to define it.

CC'ing Peter to see what his thoughts are.

thanks
-john



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