Re: printk_ratelimited() not compiling

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 14:10 -0800, john stultz wrote:
> I thought printk_ratelimited would be perfect for an issue I'm
> having, but when I tried using it, replacing a printk I had, I got the
> following:

[]

> fs/namei.c:1075: error: variable ‘_rs’ has initializer but incomplete type

[]

> Am I missing something obvious, or did something get broken after this went in?

Dunno.
Maybe you typed printk_ratelimit not printk_ratelimited?
Can you send the code you're using?

I just tried it in drivers/net/tg3.c and it compiled fine.

diff --git a/drivers/net/tg3.c b/drivers/net/tg3.c
index 7f82b02..cf9b0d8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tg3.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tg3.c
@@ -1092,7 +1092,7 @@ static int tg3_mdio_init(struct tg3 *tp)
 
 	i = mdiobus_register(tp->mdio_bus);
 	if (i) {
-		printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: mdiobus_reg failed (0x%x)\n",
+		printk_ratelimited(KERN_WARNING "%s: mdiobus_reg failed (0x%x)\n
 			tp->dev->name, i);
 		mdiobus_free(tp->mdio_bus);
 		return i;