This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled media: stk1160: Fixed high volume of stk1160_dbg messages to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: media-stk1160-fixed-high-volume-of-stk1160_dbg-messa.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 3538a2728d09316690bea3bb646e8c209648acf2 Author: Ghanshyam Agrawal <ghanshyam1898@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat Nov 25 14:32:36 2023 +0530 media: stk1160: Fixed high volume of stk1160_dbg messages [ Upstream commit b3695e86d25aafbe175dd51f6aaf6f68d341d590 ] The function stk1160_dbg gets called too many times, which causes the output to get flooded with messages. Since stk1160_dbg uses printk, it is now replaced with printk_ratelimited. Suggested-by: Phillip Potter <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ghanshyam Agrawal <ghanshyam1898@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/stk1160/stk1160-video.c b/drivers/media/usb/stk1160/stk1160-video.c index 202b084f65a2..4cf540d1b250 100644 --- a/drivers/media/usb/stk1160/stk1160-video.c +++ b/drivers/media/usb/stk1160/stk1160-video.c @@ -107,8 +107,7 @@ void stk1160_copy_video(struct stk1160 *dev, u8 *src, int len) /* * TODO: These stk1160_dbg are very spammy! - * We should 1) check why we are getting them - * and 2) add ratelimit. + * We should check why we are getting them. * * UPDATE: One of the reasons (the only one?) for getting these * is incorrect standard (mismatch between expected and configured). @@ -151,7 +150,7 @@ void stk1160_copy_video(struct stk1160 *dev, u8 *src, int len) /* Let the bug hunt begin! sanity checks! */ if (lencopy < 0) { - stk1160_dbg("copy skipped: negative lencopy\n"); + printk_ratelimited(KERN_DEBUG "copy skipped: negative lencopy\n"); return; }