Re: [PATCH -v3 1/2] ratelimit: Extend to print suppressed messages on release

[Christian Borntraeger]

On 07/05/2016 11:14 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 05/07/2016 22:53, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>> Yes, this is new in next. As far as I can see, the new message would only
>> appear if we would call ratelimit_state_exit. Correct? We do not call this -
>> I assume this is ok?
>>
>> We really only want to reuse the rate limit base code (to avoid writing the same
>> code twice) and being in lib indicated that this can indeed be used outside
>> printk.
>> Now: your patch 1 would allow me to get rid of the messages completely
>> by setting the flag and by not calling ratelimit_state_exit. Which is probably
>> what we should do in our code.
> 
> Can we delay fixing this after the code is merged in Linus's tree?

Absolutely. We already have 2 smaller conflicts in next and I certainly do not want to add
another one.

The current ratelimit print does not hurt - it is just not necessary for us.
so my statement was just a "statement of direction" to write some IBM speak ;-)