On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:24:49AM +0200, Dietmar Rudolph wrote: > Hello, I hope this is the correct place to put a bug report in. I do > not subscribe to this mailing list, but feel free to send PM in case > you need additional info. You shoudn't :-) > > After installing Ubuntu 13.10, I noticed kern.log growing faster > than you could look at. Within a few working hours, kern.log was > >6GB! > > The reason is that I intentionally disabled WiFi on this laptop by > turning the HW switch off. However, this makes iwl3945 write a log > entry into kern.log every few microseconds! > > The workaround is to turn the HW switch on. The bug fix would be to > write just a single line to kern.log. This message is printed when someone try to UP device when RF kill switch is on. Either you did not compile kernel with CONFIG_RFKILL or your user space network management software does not handle rfkill . Stanislaw -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
