netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] r8169: remove not needed net

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Message-ID: <YxNw/6qh5gwWZH7N@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
Date:   Sat, 3 Sep 2022 17:21:35 +0200
From:   Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Cc:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Realtek linux nic maintainers <nic_swsd@...ltek.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] r8169: remove not needed net_ratelimit() check

Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com> :
> We're not in a hot path and don't want to miss this message,
> therefore remove the net_ratelimit() check.
>
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>

There had historically been some user push against excess "spam"
messages, even when systems are able to stand a gazillion of phy
generated messages - resources constrained systems may not - due
to dysfunctionning hardware or externally triggered events.

Things may have changed though.

-- 
Ueimor