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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>2005-10-19 21:23:44 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-10-19 23:04:30 -0700
commitc367c21c93ccdaf7e1e124891633d89f9ae77f54 (patch)
treeb9507834adaae1172a746b008a4a05db5e625b22
parent1c59827d1da9bcd6970800d4f8a031b5859e8b4c (diff)
[PATCH] orinoco: limit message rate
Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> reports a printk storm from this driver. Fix. Acked-by: David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c
index cf3daaa1b36..15ceaf61575 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c
@@ -578,8 +578,9 @@ static int orinoco_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
txfid, NULL);
if (err) {
netif_start_queue(dev);
- printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Error %d transmitting packet\n",
- dev->name, err);
+ if (net_ratelimit())
+ printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Error %d transmitting packet\n",
+ dev->name, err);
stats->tx_errors++;
goto fail;
}