From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
To: Dietmar Rudolph <dietmar@crlf.de>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iwl3945 filling kern.log when HW switch is off
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 13:27:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131024112750.GC1677@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <526795E1.90701@crlf.de>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-24 11:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-23 9:24 iwl3945 filling kern.log when HW switch is off Dietmar Rudolph
2013-10-24 11:27 ` Stanislaw Gruszka [this message]
2013-10-24 14:48 ` Dan Williams
2013-10-25 10:04 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
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