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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: mpt3sas: make sysfs error messages ratelimited
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 02:48:20 -0400
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Colin,

> It is possible to heavily spam the kernel logs with messages by
> excessive reading of the mpt3sas sysfs files.  Make the error messages
> ratelimited to reduce the spamming effect.

That's a bug. Please just nuke all of these.

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering