linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] b44.c box lockup fix (netconsole): ratelimit NAPI poll error message

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Message-Id: <20091125.145643.04893966.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:56:43 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	andi@...as.de
Cc:	zambrano@...adcom.com, dave@...dillows.org, mb@...sch.de,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] b44.c box lockup fix (netconsole): ratelimit NAPI poll
 error message

From: Andreas Mohr <andi@...as.de>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:35:46 +0100

> Turns out that it's not very helpful to have a netconsole-deployed
> network driver's interrupt handler message spew noise permanently
> (see comment in patch).

It's not even an illegal state, especially with shared interrupts.
The warning should never be emitted.
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