Re: [PATCH] usbnet: ratelimit kevent may have been dropped warnings

From: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@shawell.net>
Date: Thu,  8 Nov 2012 16:26:21 +0000

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: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@shawell.net>

Applied, thanks.