Subject: Re: [PATCH] Silence debug prints when using adhoc mode
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 10:05:45 +0200
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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.

johannes