ipmi: Use dev_warn_ratelimited() for incorrect message warnings

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During BMC firmware upgrades on live systems, the ipmi_msghandler
generates excessive "BMC returned incorrect response" warnings
while the BMC is temporarily offline. This can flood system logs
in large deployments.

Replace dev_warn() with dev_warn_ratelimited() to throttle these
warnings and prevent log spam during BMC maintenance operations.

Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Message-ID: <20250710-ipmi_ratelimit-v1-1-6d417015ebe9@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <corey@minyard.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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Breno Leitao 2025-07-10 05:57:26 -07:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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