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Date:	Mon, 5 May 2008 10:58:34 +0800
From:	"Dave Young" <hidave.darkstar@...il.com>
To:	"Joe Perches" <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, paulmck@...ibm.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] __ratelimit rewrite

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 09:37 +0800, Dave Young wrote:
>  > >  I think your changes should then be done in
>  > >  printk.h not creating a new ratelimit.h.
>  >
>  > IMO ratelimit is not just for printk use now, so a standalone head
>  > file is necessary.
>
>  What other uses would ratelimit have?

ratelimit is a general function,  another user of it is
WARN_ON_RATELIMIT in this patch. It could have other usage in future.

>
>
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