Re: ath9k becon loss messages

[Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>]

Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> writes:

> On Sunday 05 April 2009 11:29:38 Michael Buesch wrote:
>
>> I think this message should only show if
>> CONFIG_MAC80211_VERBOSE_DEBUG is set. It's kind of expected that we
>> lose a beacon once in a while, so we shouldn't print verbose
>> messages to the kernel log (even if they are KERN_DEBUG).
>> 
>> And besides that, I think one can easily remotely trigger this
>> message and flood the logs. So it should probably _also_ be
>> ratelimited.
>
> Something like this:

I agree, the message confuses the users and creates way too much
problems. Your patch is a good solution, the message is still useful
for the driver developers.

> Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>

Reviewed-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>

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Kalle Valo