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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 10:07:23 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] efivarfs: Limit the rate for non-root to read files
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On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 9:54 AM, Luck, Tony <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote:
> With the new "while/nap" change there would still be one message
> per second, but the number of callbacks suppressed should be 1
> (unless the user has many threads doing reads).
>
> Maybe it is good to know that an application is doing something
> stupid and we should drop that line from the patch and let the
> warnings flow?

I think the "one message per second" is fine.

Looks good. Do I get this through the EFI tree, or should I just take
it directly?

               Linus