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ipmi: Use dev_warn_ratelimited() for incorrect message warnings
authorBreno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Thu, 10 Jul 2025 12:57:26 +0000 (05:57 -0700)
committerCorey Minyard <corey@minyard.net>
Thu, 10 Jul 2025 12:59:43 +0000 (07:59 -0500)
commitec50ec378e3fd83bde9b3d622ceac3509a60b6b5
tree6c8f7974c7e98dbc0ad43ec3cc2b208e6e053bdc
parentf6f9760320a93930e70ad6016afbabc475bcdd09
ipmi: Use dev_warn_ratelimited() for incorrect message warnings

During BMC firmware upgrades on live systems, the ipmi_msghandler
generates excessive "BMC returned incorrect response" warnings
while the BMC is temporarily offline. This can flood system logs
in large deployments.

Replace dev_warn() with dev_warn_ratelimited() to throttle these
warnings and prevent log spam during BMC maintenance operations.

Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Message-ID: <20250710-ipmi_ratelimit-v1-1-6d417015ebe9@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <corey@minyard.net>
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c