Bug 198283 - bcm43xx excessive debug logging to syslog
Summary: bcm43xx excessive debug logging to syslog
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Status: CLOSED DEFERRED
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: John W. Linville
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-07-10 20:39 UTC by Robert Story
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2006-07-11 15:19:59 UTC
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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).


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