Please apply to 2.6.14-rc.
Although this message is having the intended effect of causing wireless
driver maintainers to upgrade their code, I never should have merged
this patch in its present form. Leading to tons of bug reports and
unhappy users.
Some wireless apps poll for statistics regularly, which leads to a
printk() every single time they ask for stats. That's a little bit
_too_ much of a reminder that the driver is using an old API.
Change this to printing out the message once, per kernel boot.
diff --git a/net/core/wireless.c b/net/core/wireless.c
index d17f158..271ddb3 100644
--- a/net/core/wireless.c
+++ b/net/core/wireless.c
@@ -455,10 +455,15 @@ static inline struct iw_statistics *get_
/* Old location, field to be removed in next WE */
if(dev->get_wireless_stats) {
- printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s (WE) : Driver using old /proc/net/wireless support, please fix driver !\n",
- dev->name);
+ static int printed_message;
+
+ if (!printed_message++)
+ printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s (WE) : Driver using old /proc/net/wireless support, please fix driver !\n",
+ dev->name);
+
return dev->get_wireless_stats(dev);
}
+
/* Not found */
return (struct iw_statistics *) NULL;
}
-
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