From c367c21c93ccdaf7e1e124891633d89f9ae77f54 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Morton Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 21:23:44 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] orinoco: limit message rate Brice Goglin reports a printk storm from this driver. Fix. Acked-by: David Gibson Cc: Jeff Garzik Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c | 5 +++-- 1 file 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; } -- 2.41.0