Return-path: Received: from mta-out.inet.fi ([195.156.147.13]:39507 "EHLO jenni1.inet.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753799Ab0EXIPK (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 May 2010 04:15:10 -0400 Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 11:14:55 +0300 From: Mikko Rapeli To: Johannes Berg Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Silence debug prints when using adhoc mode Message-ID: <20100524081455.GB19669@nalle> References: <20100523162240.GZ19669@nalle> <1274688345.3743.2.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1274688345.3743.2.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:05:45AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 19:22 +0300, Mikko Rapeli wrote: > > This is flooded to syslog quite a few times when connecting to another > > Linux box in adhoc mode. Syslog files fill up the disk fast: > > > > $ dmesg | tail -10 > > [ 1986.772018] wlan0: No active IBSS STAs - trying to scan for other IBSS networks with same SSID (merge) > > [ 1986.776149] wlan0: No active IBSS STAs - trying to scan for other IBSS networks with same SSID (merge) > > [ 1986.780076] wlan0: No active IBSS STAs - trying to scan for other IBSS networks with same SSID (merge) > > [ 1986.784020] wlan0: No active IBSS STAs - trying to scan for other IBSS networks with same SSID (merge) > > [ 1986.788149] wlan0: No active IBSS STAs - trying to scan for other IBSS networks with same SSID (merge) > > [ 1986.792108] wlan0: No active IBSS STAs - trying to scan for other IBSS networks with same SSID (merge) > > [ 1986.796070] wlan0: No active IBSS STAs - trying to scan for other IBSS networks with same SSID (merge) > > [ 1986.800018] wlan0: No active IBSS STAs - trying to scan for other IBSS networks with same SSID (merge) > > [ 1986.804186] wlan0: No active IBSS STAs - trying to scan for other IBSS networks with same SSID (merge) > > [ 1986.808072] wlan0: No active IBSS STAs - trying to scan for other IBSS networks with same SSID (merge) > > Hm. That's not supposed to happen over and over again that quickly, only > every few seconds. I wonder if that's related to the other timer issue > that we saw in ibss. I've had this spamming problem since December 2009 with all 2.6.32 kernels from Debian unstable, so this not something new from 2.6.34. -Mikko