From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751789AbXLCXbT (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Dec 2007 18:31:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751321AbXLCXbM (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Dec 2007 18:31:12 -0500 Received: from mtiwmhc11.worldnet.att.net ([204.127.131.115]:34158 "EHLO mtiwmhc11.worldnet.att.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751248AbXLCXbL (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Dec 2007 18:31:11 -0500 Message-ID: <475491CA.5050704@lwfinger.net> Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:31:22 -0600 From: Larry Finger User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ray Lee CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: SoftMAC: Getting essid from req_essid References: <2c0942db0711301506k7e154b76kc1fc99c189f68a3d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2c0942db0711301506k7e154b76kc1fc99c189f68a3d@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ray Lee wrote: > Hey there Larry, all, > > git blame fingered commit id efe870f9 (from Larry) for adding a couple > of fairly harmless looking messages to > net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c . The problem is that one > of them is clogging up my syslog at the tune of once a second or so > ("SoftMAC: Getting essid from req_essid"), and rolling everything else > out of my dmesg. > > I just rebooted into 2.6.23-rc3+some, and after 36 minutes of uptime I > already have: > > $ dmesg | cut -d ']' -f2- | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -3 > > 1047 SoftMAC: Getting essid from req_essid > 38 SoftMAC: Getting essid from associate_essid > 22 SoftMAC: Scanning finished: scanned 13 channels starting with channel 1 > > Is the message important for debugging, or can I make a patch to yank > the silly thing? Just turn off SoftMAC debugging. Larry