On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 05:08:19PM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> Rather than ratelimit the interface perhaps send a ratelimited note
> telling the user straight up that he's begging for trouble. We can
> ignore it when regression testing, and point it out to Joe Pounder
> should he fail to notice.. or be somewhat dense.
Yeah, if those dudes don't stare at dmesg, that note doesn't bring us
whit.
Alternatively, we could do
add_taint(TAINT_HOTPLUG_POUNDER)
when the rate is exceeded...
I'd rather like to slow it down for a second, though, if it doesn't hurt
any sensible use cases in doing so.
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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