From c367c21c93ccdaf7e1e124891633d89f9ae77f54 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 21:23:44 -0700
Subject: [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>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'drivers')

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;
 	}
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