From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bastian Bittorf Subject: Re: 'iw events' stops receiving events after a while on 4.9 + hacks Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 12:08:45 +0200 Message-ID: <20170517100844.GC2849@medion.lan> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev , "linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" To: Ben Greear Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org * Ben Greear [17.05.2017 11:51]: > I have been keeping an 'iw events' program running with a perl script gathering its > output and post-processing it. This has been working for several years on 4.7 and earlier > kernels, but when testing on 4.9 overnight, I notice that 'iw events' is not showing any input. 'strace' shows > that it is waiting on recvmsg. If I start a second 'iw events' then it will get > wifi events as expected. me too, also seen on 4.4 - i'am happy for debug ideas. bye, bastian