[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 cf3daaa..15ceaf6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c
@@ -578,8 +578,9 @@
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;
}