netdev - Re: 'iw events' stops receiving events after a while on 4.9 + hacks

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Date:   Tue, 30 May 2017 15:18:42 +0200
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>, Bastian Bittorf <bb@....de>
Cc:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 'iw events' stops receiving events after a while on 4.9 + hacks

On Wed, 2017-05-17 at 08:22 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> 
> I saw it exactly once so far, and it happened overnight,
> but we have not been doing a lot of work with the 4.9 kernel until
> recently.
> 
> I don't think there were many messages on this system, and certainly
> others have run much longer on systems that should be generating many
> more events without trouble.

Ok.

> Is there any way to dump out the socket information if we reproduce
> the problem?

I have no idea, sorry.

If you or Bastian can tell me how to reproduce the problem, I can try
to investigate it.

johannes