From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>,
torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Nasty log spamming problem in ide proc changes
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:55:45 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1100184927.22254.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200411012006.iA1K6HR7010518@hera.kernel.org>
On Llu, 2004-11-01 at 17:18, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> ChangeSet 1.2424.1.2, 2004/11/01 18:18:35+01:00, bzolnier@trik.(none)
>
> [ide] obsolete /proc/ide/hd?/settings
>
> Majority of these settings is also available through ioctls.
> We will deal with the rest during deprecation period.
Unfortunately while these changes are definitely a good thing.
>
> + printk(KERN_WARNING "Warning: /proc/ide/hd?/settings interface is "
> + "obsolete, and will be removed soon!\n");
> +
The above should be rate limited or on the write case moved to after
the capable() check. A program polling these settings now makes a nasty
noise and wipes the logs. A user can also do it intentionally.
next parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-11 15:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200411012006.iA1K6HR7010518@hera.kernel.org>
2004-11-11 14:55 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-11-11 16:10 ` Nasty log spamming problem in ide proc changes Jens Axboe
2004-11-17 22:54 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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