From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>,
torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: Nasty log spamming problem in ide proc changes
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:10:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041111161021.GB9129@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1100184927.22254.22.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, Nov 11 2004, Alan Cox wrote:
> > + 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.
Or just print it once...
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-11 16:13 UTC|newest]
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2004-11-11 14:55 ` Nasty log spamming problem in ide proc changes Alan Cox
2004-11-11 16:10 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2004-11-17 22:54 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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