On Fri, 2016-09-16 at 17:040700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Linus Torvalds > <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > Here's a totally untested patch. What do people say? > Heh. It looks like "pr_xyz_once()" is used in places that haven't > included "ratelimit.h", so this doesn't actually build for everything. > But I guess as a concept patch it's not hard to understand, even if > the implementation needs a bit of tweaking.
do_just_once just isn't a good name for a global rate limited mechanism that does something very different than the name. Maybe allow_once_per_ratelimit or the like There could be an equivalent do_once https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/22/3
