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Date:	Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:06:32 -0800
From:	"Ray Lee" <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>
To:	"Larry Finger" <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: SoftMAC: Getting essid from req_essid

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?

Ray
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