Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:31:22 -0600 | From | Larry Finger <> | Subject | Re: SoftMAC: Getting essid from req_essid |
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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
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