[PATCH] ratelimit the ieee1394 IR legacy activated messages

running coriander1 with an Apple iSight produces lots of dmesg output.

Jul 13 22:14:17 ibook kernel: ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
Jul 13 22:15:28 ibook kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: IR legacy activated
Jul 13 22:15:59 ibook last message repeated 208 times
Jul 13 22:17:00 ibook last message repeated 762 times
Jul 13 22:18:01 ibook last message repeated 914 times
Jul 13 22:18:17 ibook last message repeated 238 times
Jul 13 22:18:17 ibook kernel: ieee1394: unsolicited response packet received - no tlabel match
Jul 13 22:18:17 ibook kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: IR legacy activated

its less noisy with the patch:

Jul 14 08:03:08 ibook kernel: ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
Jul 14 08:03:26 ibook kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: IR legacy activated
Jul 14 08:03:42 ibook last message repeated 10 times
Jul 14 08:03:47 ibook kernel: printk: 63 messages suppressed.
Jul 14 08:03:47 ibook kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: IR legacy activated
Jul 14 08:03:52 ibook kernel: printk: 74 messages suppressed.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: Jody McIntyre <scjody@modernduck.com>
Cc: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.c b/drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.c
index a485f47bb21e..b12a970cc9a3 100644
--- a/drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.c
+++ b/drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.c
@@ -1084,7 +1084,8 @@ static int ohci_devctl(struct hpsb_host *host, enum devctl_cmd cmd, int arg)
 
                         initialize_dma_rcv_ctx(&ohci->ir_legacy_context, 1);
 
-                        PRINT(KERN_ERR, "IR legacy activated");
+                        if (printk_ratelimit())
+                                PRINT(KERN_ERR, "IR legacy activated");
                 }
 
                 spin_lock_irqsave(&ohci->IR_channel_lock, flags);