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From: Jonas Gorski <jonas.gorski@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2018 23:43:06 +0200
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Subject: Re: wireless dongle causing entire machine to hang
To: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Cc: Randy Oostdyk <linux-kernel@oostdyk.com>,
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On 8 August 2018 at 21:14, Arend van Spriel
<arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com> wrote:
> On 8/8/2018 7:58 PM, Randy Oostdyk wrote:
>>
>> Good day all,
>
>
> Hi Randy
>
>> I'm writing to report an issue with the linux kernel, and I'm hoping
>> this is the right place to report it. (short aside: I tried to ask in
>> the #linux-wireless IRC channel, but wasn't permitted to speak!)
>
>
> uhm. why?

There was (and still is) a lot of link spamming recently on freenode
in #linux-wireless (and several other open [source] channels) from
unregistered clients; to prevent further disruptions unregistered
clients were prevented from writing to the channel for now.

Quite likely this was/is Randys issue. Registering helps, not sure how
easy it is to give individual unregistered users the right to talk.


Regards
Jonas