From: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
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Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 11:45:00 +0530
To: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
CC: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	<linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: ratelimit few aggregated messages
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Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan wrote:
> From: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
> 
> ratelimit few aggregation related messages, these messages
> floods the log when aggregation is disabled in the AP(for some
> wifi testcases) and we run traffic between STA and AP.
> mac80211 gives up after 15 addba requests, but
> ieee80211_start_tx_ba_session will be repeatedly called
> by drivers rate control tx_status callback. These net_dbg_ratelimited
> messages will be visible only when dynamic debug is enabled for
> mac80211 module.

I think the drivers need to be fixed. For ath9k, we probably need
an intermediate state to track whether an ADDBA request is pending.

Sujith