From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] b44.c box lockup fix (netconsole): ratelimit NAPI poll error message Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:56:43 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20091125.145643.04893966.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20091125213546.GA6168@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: zambrano@broadcom.com, dave@thedillows.org, mb@bu3sch.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: andi@lisas.de Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:45835 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759250AbZKYW4Z (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:56:25 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20091125213546.GA6168@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Andreas Mohr Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:35:46 +0100 > Turns out that it's not very helpful to have a netconsole-deployed > network driver's interrupt handler message spew noise permanently > (see comment in patch). It's not even an illegal state, especially with shared interrupts. The warning should never be emitted.