Bug 198283

Summary:	bcm43xx excessive debug logging to syslog
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Robert Story <rs>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	John W. Linville <linville>
Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version:	5	CC:	davej, wtogami
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Description Robert Story 2006-07-10 20:39:18 UTC

Description of problem:
I'm using the bcm43xx wireless driver at a conference I'm attending. One of the
many issues I'm having is a lot of debug messages in /var/log/messages, along
these lines:

Jul 10 16:32:27 spx kernel: ieee80211: eth1: IEEE80211_REASSOC_REQ received
Jul 10 16:32:27 spx kernel: SoftMAC: reassoc request from unknown network
Jul 10 16:32:56 spx kernel: ieee80211: eth1: IEEE80211_ASSOC_REQ received

This may have something to do with the quality of the network, but these don't
seem like critical messages that need to be logged.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.17-1.2139_FC5

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. load module & connect to network
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
lots of syslog debug messages

Expected results:
no syslog debug messages

Additional info:

Comment 1 John W. Linville 2006-07-11 15:19:59 UTC

The messages result from the config options CONFIG_IEEE80211_DEBUG and 
CONFIG_IEEE80211_SOFTMAC_DEBUG.  Given the relative lack of maturity in those 
components, I'd prefer not to turn those off at the moment.

I apologize for the inconvenience.  I'm sure we will turn them off eventually, 
I'm just not sure when (probably not in FC5).