Re: [23/27] kernel.h: add printk_ratelimited and pr__rl

Greg KH
2012-01-24T16:54:46Z

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 04:35:50PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 16:46 +0200, Phil Carmody wrote:
> > On 23/01/12 15:41 -0800, ext Greg KH wrote:
> > > 2.6.32-longterm review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >
> > This looks like an added feature with no users in .32 - does it really
> > belong in a stable tree?
> > (But to be explicit, I have no issue with its contents at all.)
>
> It's required for commit 0bfc96cb77224736dfa35c3c555d37b3646ef35e
> ('block: fail SCSI passthrough ioctls on partition devices'), though
> that hasn't actually been included in this series. I think that's
> because there is still ongoing discussion of which error codes need to
> be used.

That is exactly right.

Phil, thanks for reviewing, you are correct that this is a new
"feature", but it is needed for this other patch that people are still
arguing over :)

thanks,

greg k-h