Re: [PATCH] scsi: mpt3sas: make sysfs error messages ratelimited

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To: Colin King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: mpt3sas: make sysfs error messages ratelimited
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 02:48:20 -0400
Cc: Sathya Prakash <sathya.prakash@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Chaitra P B <chaitra.basappa@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Suganath Prabu Subramani <suganath-prabu.subramani@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "James E . J . Bottomley" <jejb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>, MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@xxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, kernel-janitors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20180907103924.17598-1-colin.king@canonical.com> (Colin King's message of "Fri, 7 Sep 2018 11:39:24 +0100")
Organization: Oracle Corporation
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Colin,

> It is possible to heavily spam the kernel logs with messages by
> excessive reading of the mpt3sas sysfs files.  Make the error messages
> ratelimited to reduce the spamming effect.

That's a bug. Please just nuke all of these.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

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