[PATCH] orinoco: limit message rate

Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> reports a printk storm from this
driver.  Fix.

Acked-by: David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c
index cf3daaa1b369..15ceaf615756 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c
@@ -578,8 +578,9 @@ static int orinoco_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
                                 txfid, NULL);
         if (err) {
                 netif_start_queue(dev);
-                printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Error %d transmitting packet\n",
-                       dev->name, err);
+                if (net_ratelimit())
+                        printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Error %d transmitting packet\n",
+                                dev->name, err);
                 stats->tx_errors++;
                 goto fail;
         }