Hi, Johannes Sorry for late feedback, I was busying on other things. On 12/11/15 at 03:38pm, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Sun, 2015-11-15 at 15:31 +0800, Dave Young wrote: > > cfg80211 module prints a lot of messages like below. Actually > > printing once is acceptable but sometimes it will print again and > > again, it looks very annoying. It is better to change these detail > > messages to debugging only. > > > > Despite the objections, I've applied this patch now. > Thanks a lot. > I've made one change: keeping the alpha2 (e.g. "US") printed in some of > the pr_err() cases in this file. > I also got rid of CONFIG_CFG80211_REG_DEBUG in a separate patch. > > I somewhat agree with the objections, but if the kernel is with > CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG then it's really simple to get the messages back > by enabling them for this file. > > Where the messages were used as an indication of something having gone > awry at a different level (e.g. mac80211 disconnect) I don't really > quite agree - that then perhaps should have a more explicit (and less > noisy) message. > > I also agree that the regulatory code is quite opaque, and the way it > arrives at certain conclusions is not always obvious. These messages > don't help all that much though since they don't contain the actual > input to the decisions. I think for that, we'd be much better served > with some kind of tracepoint or so that records all the information. I think you guys are expert in this area, I will agree with all of above. But I hope we can have some rate limited messages at least especially for endless things. Thanks Dave -- 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
