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authorJiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>2008-07-29 22:33:38 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-07-30 09:41:45 -0700
commit8f3d137e0d6cd470a4e404cbc67480a0febdb0b1 (patch)
treeec53b6c315ccc004f1fab662aee2e52d4579ffde /drivers/char
parentbd673c7c3b1681dbfabab0062e67398dadf806af (diff)
Char: mxser, ratelimit ioctl warning
The GET_MAJOR ioctl prints out a warning, make it ratelimited. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/mxser.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/mxser.c b/drivers/char/mxser.c
index e30575e8764..b638403e8e9 100644
--- a/drivers/char/mxser.c
+++ b/drivers/char/mxser.c
@@ -1612,8 +1612,10 @@ static int mxser_ioctl_special(unsigned int cmd, void __user *argp)
switch (cmd) {
case MOXA_GET_MAJOR:
- printk(KERN_WARNING "mxser: '%s' uses deprecated ioctl %x, fix "
- "your userspace\n", current->comm, cmd);
+ if (printk_ratelimit())
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "mxser: '%s' uses deprecated ioctl "
+ "%x (GET_MAJOR), fix your userspace\n",
+ current->comm, cmd);
return put_user(ttymajor, (int __user *)argp);
case MOXA_CHKPORTENABLE: