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Message-ID: <475491CA.5050704@lwfinger.net>
Date:	Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:31:22 -0600
From:	Larry Finger <larry.finger@...inger.net>
To:	Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SoftMAC: Getting essid from req_essid

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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