On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 14:15 -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
> On 12/12/2012 02:08 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 13:54 -0800, greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >> From: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> We saw logs fill with this (at very high speeds):
> >>
> >> cfg80211: Found new beacon on frequency: 5745 MHz (Ch 149) on wiphy0
> >> cfg80211: Found new beacon on frequency: 5745 MHz (Ch 149) on wiphy0
> >> cfg80211: Found new beacon on frequency: 5745 MHz (Ch 149) on wiphy0
> >> cfg80211: Found new beacon on frequency: 5745 MHz (Ch 149) on wiphy0
> >> cfg80211: Found new beacon on frequency: 5745 MHz (Ch 149) on wiphy0
> >> cfg80211: Found new beacon on frequency: 5745 MHz (Ch 149) on wiphy0
> >> cfg80211: Found new beacon on frequency: 5745 MHz (Ch 149) on wiphy0
> >> cfg80211: Found new beacon on frequency: 5745 MHz (Ch 149) on wiphy0
> >> cfg80211: Found new beacon on frequency: 5745 MHz (Ch 149) on wiphy0
> >> cfg80211: Found new beacon on frequency: 5745 MHz (Ch 149) on wiphy0
> >> cfg80211: Found new beacon on frequency: 5745 MHz (Ch 149) on wiphy0
> >> cfg80211: Found new beacon on frequency: 5745 MHz (Ch 149) on wiphy0
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> net/wireless/reg.c | 11 ++++++-----
> >> 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/net/wireless/reg.c b/net/wireless/reg.c
> >> index 6e53089..8aa7867 100644
> >> --- a/net/wireless/reg.c
> >> +++ b/net/wireless/reg.c
> >> @@ -2067,11 +2067,12 @@ int regulatory_hint_found_beacon(struct wiphy *wiphy,
> >> if (!reg_beacon)
> >> return -ENOMEM;
> >>
> >> - REG_DBG_PRINT("Found new beacon on "
> >
> > Why not just disable the config option for it if you don't care?
>
> I don't mind seeing it, just don't want thousands of them in my logs
> in a very short amount of time. Maybe I was just hitting some
> other bug, and there is no valid reason for this to ever spam?
Quite likely, since I think it's supposed to happen only once for each
channel unless you reset the regulatory (but that would cause more
messages? I think?)
johannes
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