Re: [PATCH] i386 reduce spurious interrupt noise

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 12:34:54PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Please check printk_ratelimit().

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 12:47:39PM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> I don't want them displayed by default at *all* --- it wakes up the
> monitor on console machines and that's annoying.
> You get about 1 or 2 a day --- rate limiting isn't useful, nor is
> reporting them IMO.
>   --cw

That's okay. The reason why is that this is in response to an external
stimulus which can, in principle, scream out of control, so even at
KERN_DEBUG or other loglevels it's meaningful to rate limit it.


-- wli
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