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serial: rate limit custom-speed deprecation notice

Contrary to what a comment claimed, the ASYNC_SPD flags and custom
divisor can be set by a non-privileged user so rate limit the
deprecation notice as was intended.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Johan Hovold 8 years ago
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1 changed files with 2 additions and 3 deletions
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      drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c

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drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c

@@ -954,11 +954,10 @@ static int uart_set_info(struct tty_struct *tty, struct tty_port *port,
 		    old_custom_divisor != uport->custom_divisor) {
 			/*
 			 * If they're setting up a custom divisor or speed,
-			 * instead of clearing it, then bitch about it. No
-			 * need to rate-limit; it's CAP_SYS_ADMIN only.
+			 * instead of clearing it, then bitch about it.
 			 */
 			if (uport->flags & UPF_SPD_MASK) {
-				dev_notice(uport->dev,
+				dev_notice_ratelimited(uport->dev,
 				       "%s sets custom speed on %s. This is deprecated.\n",
 				      current->comm,
 				      tty_name(port->tty));