From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 04:23:44 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [PATCH] orinoco: limit message rate
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.14-rc5~13
X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c367c21c93ccdaf7e1e124891633d89f9ae77f54;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git

[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>
---

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;
 	}