Re: printk_ratelimited() not compiling

[john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>]

On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 15:33 -0800, john stultz wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 15:23 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 14:36 -0800, john stultz wrote: 
> > > > Am I missing something obvious, or did something get broken after this went in?
> > > Ok. Solved it. I needed to #include <linux/ratelimit.h> in the file I
> > > was adding the printk_ratelimited usage in, rather then where
> > > printk_ratelimited is defined.
> > > 
> > > Maybe would it be better to move the printk_ratelimited definitions into
> > > ratelimit.h so this would be more obvious?
> > 
> > That's one option.
> > 
> > Probably the only places I tried it had an
> > #include <linux/net.h> somewhere which does an
> > #include <linux/ratelimit.h>
> > 
> > Personally, I think it'd be better to put
> > #include <linux/ratelimit.h> back in kernel.h
> > Commit 3fff4c42bd0a89869a0eb1e7874cc06ffa4aa0f5 removed it.
> 
> Right, that's what I tried first, but it doesn't build. :)
> 
> If ratelimit.h has to be included for it to work (which is fine by me),
> it seems ratelimit.h would be the ideal place to define it.
> 
> CC'ing Peter to see what his thoughts are.

Sorry, that should have been Ingo I cc'ed. Peter didn't make that
change.

thanks
-john