Re: [PATCH] wireless: change cfg80211 regulatory domain info as debug messages

Dave Young
2015-12-17T03:17:07Z

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