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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 09:58:45 +0800 From: Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com> To: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h@....de> Cc: linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, johannes@...solutions.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] wireless: change cfg80211 regulatory domain info as debug messages Hi, On 11/15/15 at 07:25pm, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: > Hi > > On 2015-11-15, Dave Young wrote: > > cfg80211 module prints a lot of messages like below. Actually printing > > once is acceptable but sometimes it will print again and again, it looks > > very annoying. It is better to change these detail messages to debugging > > only. > > It is a lot of info, easily repeated 3 times on boot, but it's also the > only real chance to determine why you ended up with the regulatory > domain settings you got, rather than just the values itself. Given that > a lot (most?) of officially shipping wireless devices are misconfigured > (wrong EEPROM regdom settings for the region they're sold in) and > considering that the limits can even change at runtime (IEEE 802.11d), > it is imho quite important not just to be able what the current > restrictions (iw reg get) are, but also why the kernel settled on those. If it is really important then a kernel cmdline param to disable the logs sounds better? Thanks Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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