Commit 5ae1424c authored by Steve Glendinning's avatar Steve Glendinning Committed by Jack Pham
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usbnet: ratelimit kevent may have been dropped warnings



From commit 9532021d upstream.

when something goes wrong, a flood of these messages can be
generated by usbnet (thousands per second).  This doesn't
generally *help* the condition so this patch ratelimits the
rate of their generation.

There's an underlying problem in usbnet's kevent deferral
mechanism which needs fixing, specifically that events *can*
get dropped and not handled.  This patch doesn't address this,
but just mitigates fallout caused by the current implemention.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSteve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@shawell.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Change-Id: I708632185ca0b310c4082cab3571a2d6552bf135
CRs-Fixed: 430579
Signed-off-by: default avatarHemant Kumar <hemantk@codeaurora.org>
parent 9af49c74
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