From: Jeff Garzik Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:59:01 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [PATCH] kill massive wireless-related log spam X-Git-Tag: v2.6.14~13 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=35848e048f55368f132e28e7f3278ce2d2347f6c;p=linux-2.6 [PATCH] kill massive wireless-related log spam Although this message is having the intended effect of causing wireless driver maintainers to upgrade their code, I never should have merged this patch in its present form. Leading to tons of bug reports and unhappy users. Some wireless apps poll for statistics regularly, which leads to a printk() every single time they ask for stats. That's a little bit _too_ much of a reminder that the driver is using an old API. Change this to printing out the message once, per kernel boot. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/net/core/wireless.c b/net/core/wireless.c index d17f1583ea..271ddb35b0 100644 --- a/net/core/wireless.c +++ b/net/core/wireless.c @@ -455,10 +455,15 @@ static inline struct iw_statistics *get_wireless_stats(struct net_device *dev) /* Old location, field to be removed in next WE */ if(dev->get_wireless_stats) { - printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s (WE) : Driver using old /proc/net/wireless support, please fix driver !\n", - dev->name); + static int printed_message; + + if (!printed_message++) + printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s (WE) : Driver using old /proc/net/wireless support, please fix driver !\n", + dev->name); + return dev->get_wireless_stats(dev); } + /* Not found */ return (struct iw_statistics *) NULL; }