netdev - Re: Rate limiting AP bandwidth change messages in ieee80211_config

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Date:	Wed, 30 Sep 2015 20:09:48 -0400
From:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	drago01 <drago01@...il.com>,
	"linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Linux-Kernel@...r. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Rate limiting AP bandwidth change messages in ieee80211_config_bw?

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@...solutions.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm not sure ratelimiting it would even work - it's not *that* high
>> frequency? Not really sure though.
>>
>> I think we can do either, it's not such a terribly important message as
>> far as I can tell.
>>
>
> Seems like Emmanuel would like to see the message stay in some form -

For what purpose?  Or rather, when a user sees this in their dmesg,
what are they supposed to do about it?

> perhaps we should try rate limiting it then? Could you check if that
> actually works?

I'll think on it, sure.  I was hoping sdata_dbg would be sufficient
because it's much easier, but if there's value in the message I can
look at limiting it in some fashion.

josh
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