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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] Return a value from printk_ratelimited
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>, Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>,
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On Fri, 2014-09-19 at 13:21 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 02:01:29 -0700
> Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com> wrote:
> 
> > printk returns an integer; there's no reason for printk_ratelimited to swallow
> > it.

Except for the lack of usefulness of the return value itself.
See: https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/7/275