netxen: ratelimit error prints
authorDhananjay Phadke <dhananjay@netxen.com>
Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:27:02 +0000 (20:27 -0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:27:02 +0000 (20:27 -0800)
If for some reason, read from card memory fails the console
get flooded with failure prints. This patch confines print
under printk_ratelimit().

Signed-off-by: Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay@netxen.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_hw.c

index 81f55e1a34d946d0beca8759885058721167adf5..b2f67b98c934bf2ac083fbfa6162728eb15e76f4 100644 (file)
@@ -1579,8 +1579,9 @@ netxen_nic_pci_mem_write_128M(struct netxen_adapter *adapter,
                }
 
                if (j >= MAX_CTL_CHECK) {
-                       printk("%s: %s Fail to write through agent\n",
-                                       __func__, netxen_nic_driver_name);
+                       if (printk_ratelimit())
+                               dev_err(&adapter->pdev->dev,
+                                       "failed to write through agent\n");
                        ret = -1;
                        break;
                }
@@ -1637,8 +1638,9 @@ netxen_nic_pci_mem_read_128M(struct netxen_adapter *adapter,
                }
 
                if (j >= MAX_CTL_CHECK) {
-                       printk(KERN_ERR "%s: %s Fail to read through agent\n",
-                                       __func__, netxen_nic_driver_name);
+                       if (printk_ratelimit())
+                               dev_err(&adapter->pdev->dev,
+                                       "failed to read through agent\n");
                        break;
                }
 
@@ -1773,8 +1775,9 @@ netxen_nic_pci_mem_write_2M(struct netxen_adapter *adapter,
                }
 
                if (j >= MAX_CTL_CHECK) {
-                       printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Fail to write through agent\n",
-                                       netxen_nic_driver_name);
+                       if (printk_ratelimit())
+                               dev_err(&adapter->pdev->dev,
+                                       "failed to write through agent\n");
                        ret = -1;
                        break;
                }
@@ -1843,8 +1846,9 @@ netxen_nic_pci_mem_read_2M(struct netxen_adapter *adapter,
                }
 
                if (j >= MAX_CTL_CHECK) {
-                       printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Fail to read through agent\n",
-                                       netxen_nic_driver_name);
+                       if (printk_ratelimit())
+                               dev_err(&adapter->pdev->dev,
+                                       "failed to read through agent\n");
                        break;
                }