[PATCH] kill massive wireless-related log spam

Although this message is having the intended effect of causing wireless
driver maintainers to upgrade their code, I never should have merged this
patch in its present form.  Leading to tons of bug reports and unhappy
users.

Some wireless apps poll for statistics regularly, which leads to a printk()
every single time they ask for stats.  That's a little bit _too_ much of a
reminder that the driver is using an old API.

Change this to printing out the message once, per kernel boot.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

net/core/wireless.c

@@ -455,10 +455,15 @@ static inline struct iw_statistics *get_wireless_stats(struct net_device *dev)
 
 	/* Old location, field to be removed in next WE */
 	if(dev->get_wireless_stats) {
+		static int printed_message;
+
+		if (!printed_message++)
 			printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s (WE) : Driver using old /proc/net/wireless support, please fix driver !\n",
 				dev->name);
+
 		return dev->get_wireless_stats(dev);
 	}
+
 	/* Not found */
 	return (struct iw_statistics *) NULL;
 }