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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Ensure tx watchdog failures always print.
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:41:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DF79D56.40200@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110614.133329.165803790485169225.davem@davemloft.net>

On 06/14/2011 10:33 AM, David Miller wrote:
> From: greearb@candelatech.com
> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:50:13 -0700
>
>> From: Ben Greear<greearb@candelatech.com>
>>
>> These are too important to not have some log message
>> generated.  But, keep the logic that only prints
>> a single stack dump.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ben Greear<greearb@candelatech.com>
>
> We specifically made this print out only once, and yes
> all of it.
>
> Because it spams people's logs to the point that the message
> is not useful and only scrolls out other more important
> messages.
>
> I'm not applying this, sorry.

Is it really legit for a driver to spam this message?  I hit
this due to bugs in my code that sent pkts to the wrong
driver queue, but aside from that, we rarely if ever see
the message print.

Thanks,
Ben


-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


      reply	other threads:[~2011-06-14 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-14 16:50 [PATCH] net: Ensure tx watchdog failures always print greearb
2011-06-14 17:14 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-06-14 17:25   ` Ben Greear
2011-06-14 17:34     ` David Miller
2011-06-14 17:33 ` David Miller
2011-06-14 17:41   ` Ben Greear [this message]

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