Print the message only once. I see it 16 times on a 2P box with 16 logical CPUs. Signed-off-by: Naga Chumbalkar <nagananda.chumbalkar@xxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/p4-clockmod.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/p4-clockmod.c index bd1cac7..52c9364 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/p4-clockmod.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/p4-clockmod.c @@ -158,9 +158,9 @@ static unsigned int cpufreq_p4_get_frequency(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) { if (c->x86 == 0x06) { if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_EST)) - printk(KERN_WARNING PFX "Warning: EST-capable CPU " - "detected. The acpi-cpufreq module offers " - "voltage scaling in addition of frequency " + printk_once(KERN_WARNING PFX "Warning: EST-capable " + "CPU detected. The acpi-cpufreq module offers " + "voltage scaling in addition to frequency " "scaling. You should use that instead of " "p4-clockmod, if possible.\n"); switch (c->x86_model) { -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cpufreq" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html