netdev - Re: [PATCH] wireless: change cfg80211 regulatory domain info as debug messages

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Message-ID: <20151116015845.GA3439@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com>
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
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