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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:56:43 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] b44.c box lockup fix (netconsole): ratelimit NAPI poll
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From: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:35:46 +0100

> Turns out that it's not very helpful to have a netconsole-deployed
> network driver's interrupt handler message spew noise permanently
> (see comment in patch).

It's not even an illegal state, especially with shared interrupts.
The warning should never be emitted.