[PATCH 0/1] iwlwifi: trace debug messages

Andy Whitcroft apw at canonical.com
Tue Sep 4 11:04:59 UTC 2012


On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 01:52:44PM +0100, Luis Henriques wrote:

> It looks like the issue is due to an overflow of debug messages to the
> kernel logs.  After bisecting the kernel, commit:
> 
> 2655e314c4b204966008689eaf3e87ba1f38d55c iwlwifi: trace debug messages
> 
> does fix the problem.  This commit had to be backported to the Precise
> kernel as it didn't applied cleanly.  The original bug reporter claims
> the issue is fixed with this backport.

This is rather a large patch which must fix the issue as a side effect
rather than really fixing the original issue.  I am not against fixing
this this way I guess, but it does feel a little heavy handed.  Did we
have any idea which debug message was triggering the crash?

-apw




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