Return-path: Received: from mail-ww0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:39940 "EHLO mail-ww0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751321Ab2AGUzb (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jan 2012 15:55:31 -0500 Received: by wgbdr10 with SMTP id dr10so523454wgb.1 for ; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 12:55:30 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <201201071127.06717.toralf.foerster@gmx.de> References: <201201071127.06717.toralf.foerster@gmx.de> Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 22:55:30 +0200 Message-ID: (sfid-20120107_215551_848413_61C67136) Subject: Re: suggestion for a reasonable value for /sys/module/iwlwifi/parameters/debug From: Emmanuel Grumbach To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Toralf_F=F6rster?= Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > If I choosed 0x43ff my syslog message files exploded - and I'd like to trouble > shoot a problem with my wlan at a ThinkPad T400 (iwlwifi, 5100 AGN controler). > The symptoms are that 1-2 times in a hour the network stops working without > any message in /var/log/messages (kernel 3.0.x, 3.1.x, 3.2.0 tested). > > Thanks for any advice > -- For this kind of issues I added the TX_QUEUES debug flags, but I just checked and it is not in 3.2. It is in John's wireless tree though. It is bit 31: debug=0x80000000 BTW - John, I have tried many times to understand all this, but stupid me, couldn't ever make it. How come a patch is in wireless which in my understanding (probably wrong) is supposed to feed the current rc cycle (meaning the 3.2-rcX which just ended) and not be in 3.2 stable release ? Sorry for the ignorance... thanks