Commit a3dcbae2 authored Oct 04, 2015 by Vladimir Kondratiev Committed by Kalle Valo Oct 09, 2015

wil6210: ratelimit Tx error message



Situations observed when IP stack schedules lots of
frames for Tx while no connection (connection lost,
for example). In this case, dmesg bloated with error
message "FW not connected", printed for every frame.

Ratelimit this error message to avoid dmesg pollution.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>

parent 4765332d

drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/txrx.c

+1 −1

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		@@ -1667,7 +1667,7 @@ netdev_tx_t wil_start_xmit(struct sk_buff skb, struct net_device ndev)
		goto drop;
		}
		if (unlikely(!test_bit(wil_status_fwconnected, wil->status))) {
		wil_err(wil, "FW not connected\n");
		wil_err_ratelimited(wil, "FW not connected\n");
		goto drop;
		}
		if (unlikely(wil->wdev->iftype == NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR)) {