On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 09:48:01AM -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 13:27 +0200, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote: > > 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 . > > Though maybe it shouldn't actually print a dmesg error when that > happens? Lots of software (scripts included) might try to open the > device but not really know much about rfkill... Is there a way to print > it once-per-rfkill instead maybe? I'll just remove this message. We can return ERFKILL error instead. That will allow user to identify problem without message. Thanks 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
