Return-path: Received: from mail-yx0-f187.google.com ([209.85.210.187]:55765 "EHLO mail-yx0-f187.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752486AbZL3St0 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:49:26 -0500 Received: by yxe17 with SMTP id 17so11031878yxe.33 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:49:25 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:49:25 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [ath5k-devel] var/log/messages filling quickly From: Bob Copeland To: =?UTF-8?Q?Lucian_=C8=98andor?= Cc: ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Lucian Șandor wrote: > Hi all, > I run an Ad-hoc network, using a SuSE 11.2 computer, kernel 2.6.32-5.5 > from SuSE (probably modifed by them.) If I turn off all the other > computers in the network, the ath5k/kernel combination writes 20 times > per second to the system log /var/log/messages: > > Dec 28 14:10:31 battlecruiser kernel: [  929.933020] wlan0: No active > IBSS STAs - trying to scan for other IBSS networks with same SSID > (merge) Turn off CONFIG_MAC80211_IBSS_DEBUG in the kernel config (or ask SuSE to do the same). You can't turn it off at runtime, but you could turn off kernel debug messages in syslogd. However, this is only supposed to happen every 30s if I read the code right. Maybe someone on linux-wireless knows how this can happen? -- Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com