tty: Move tty_write_message out of kernel/printk

[linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git] / kernel / printk.c

diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index a7f7559c5f6cbc2a06413622a09dd3a0bc21782d..a430fd04008b4b9565434ebefa0ee48a62dade90 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -1291,32 +1291,16 @@ static int __init disable_boot_consoles(void)
 }
 late_initcall(disable_boot_consoles);
 
-/**
- * tty_write_message - write a message to a certain tty, not just the console.
- * @tty: the destination tty_struct
- * @msg: the message to write
- *
- * This is used for messages that need to be redirected to a specific tty.
- * We don't put it into the syslog queue right now maybe in the future if
- * really needed.
- */
-void tty_write_message(struct tty_struct *tty, char *msg)
-{
-       if (tty && tty->ops->write)
-               tty->ops->write(tty, msg, strlen(msg));
-       return;
-}
-
 #if defined CONFIG_PRINTK
 
-DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(printk_ratelimit_state, 5 * HZ, 10);
 /*
  * printk rate limiting, lifted from the networking subsystem.
  *
- * This enforces a rate limit: not more than one kernel message
- * every printk_ratelimit_jiffies to make a denial-of-service
- * attack impossible.
+ * This enforces a rate limit: not more than 10 kernel messages
+ * every 5s to make a denial-of-service attack impossible.
  */
+DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(printk_ratelimit_state, 5 * HZ, 10);
+
 int printk_ratelimit(void)
 {
        return __ratelimit(&printk_ratelimit_state);