linux-kernel - Re: [patch 3/4] PNP: remove ratelimit on add resource failures

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Message-ID: <48320A0B.7040008@keyaccess.nl>
Date:	Tue, 20 May 2008 01:15:23 +0200
From:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...access.nl>
To:	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>
CC:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Adam Belay <ambx1@....rr.com>,
	Adam M Belay <abelay@....edu>,
	Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@...el.com>,
	Matthieu Castet <castet.matthieu@...e.fr>,
	Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 3/4] PNP: remove ratelimit on add resource failures

On 16-05-08 00:07, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:

> We used to have a fixed-size resource table.  If a device had
> twenty resources when the table only had space for ten, we didn't
> need ten warnings, so we added the ratelimit.
> 
> Now that we can dynamically allocate new resources, we should
> only get failures if the allocation fails.  That should be
> rare enough that we don't need to ratelimit the messages.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>

Acked-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>

Rene

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