[PATCH 5/8] SGI x86_64 UV: Limit the number of firmware messages

[Mike Travis]

Limit number of firmware messages of the form:

[  170.643130] firmware: requesting intel-ucode/06-2e-0

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Cc: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@xxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/base/firmware_class.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- linux.orig/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
+++ linux/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
@@ -471,6 +471,7 @@
 	struct firmware *firmware;
 	struct builtin_fw *builtin;
 	int retval;
+	static int msgcnt;
 
 	if (!firmware_p)
 		return -EINVAL;
@@ -494,8 +495,10 @@
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	if (uevent)
+	if (uevent && (msgcnt < 4 || !limit_console_output(false))) {
 		dev_info(device, "firmware: requesting %s\n", name);
+		msgcnt++;
+	}
 
 	retval = fw_setup_device(firmware, &f_dev, name, device, uevent);
 	if (retval)

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