Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Ensure tx watchdog failures always print.

From: Ben Greear <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:41:42 -0700

On 06/14/2011 10:33 AM, David Miller wrote:
> From: [email-masked]
> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:50:13 -0700
>
>> From: Ben Greear<[email-masked]>
>>
>> These are too important to not have some log message
>> generated.  But, keep the logic that only prints
>> a single stack dump.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ben Greear<[email-masked]>
>
> We specifically made this print out only once, and yes
> all of it.
>
> Because it spams people's logs to the point that the message
> is not useful and only scrolls out other more important
> messages.
>
> I'm not applying this, sorry.

Is it really legit for a driver to spam this message?  I hit
this due to bugs in my code that sent pkts to the wrong
driver queue, but aside from that, we rarely if ever see
the message print.

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <[email-masked]>
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