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| author | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> | 2005-10-26 01:59:01 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-10-26 10:39:43 -0700 |
| commit | 35848e048f55368f132e28e7f3278ce2d2347f6c (patch) | |
| tree | d7214bac83bce465818583b5e600fc114a49a361 /net | |
| parent | bb32051532fed727de0d513a9a578b54c0b7ea5a (diff) | |
| download | linux-35848e048f55368f132e28e7f3278ce2d2347f6c.tar.bz2 | |
[PATCH] kill massive wireless-related log spam
Although this message is having the intended effect of causing wireless
driver maintainers to upgrade their code, I never should have merged this
patch in its present form. Leading to tons of bug reports and unhappy
users.
Some wireless apps poll for statistics regularly, which leads to a printk()
every single time they ask for stats. That's a little bit _too_ much of a
reminder that the driver is using an old API.
Change this to printing out the message once, per kernel boot.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/wireless.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/wireless.c b/net/core/wireless.c index d17f1583ea3e..271ddb35b0b2 100644 --- a/net/core/wireless.c +++ b/net/core/wireless.c @@ -455,10 +455,15 @@ static inline struct iw_statistics *get_wireless_stats(struct net_device *dev) /* Old location, field to be removed in next WE */ if(dev->get_wireless_stats) { - printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s (WE) : Driver using old /proc/net/wireless support, please fix driver !\n", - dev->name); + static int printed_message; + + if (!printed_message++) + printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s (WE) : Driver using old /proc/net/wireless support, please fix driver !\n", + dev->name); + return dev->get_wireless_stats(dev); } + /* Not found */ return (struct iw_statistics *) NULL; } |