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| From | Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: use dyndbg for debug messages |
| Date | 2017-06-28 21:30 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <tXqP1-1wb-41@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <tXlcC-7iY-25@gated-at.bofh.it> <tXmLo-8q5-37@gated-at.bofh.it> <tXqFk-1sJ-13@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On Wed, 2017-06-28 at 21:10 +0200, Lubomir Rintel wrote: > On Wed, 2017-06-28 at 17:02 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > On Wed, 2017-06-28 at 15:17 +0200, Lubomir Rintel wrote: > > > The mac80211_hwsim doesn't offer a way to disable the debugging > > > output. > > > Unfortunately, it's pretty chatty, dumping a lot of stuff into the > > > message buffer. > > > > Why is this a problem? It's pretty much a testing tool only, and much > > of the point is to have message about it's internal state? > > I do use it as a development tool. I find it very convenient to always > have a bunch of libvirt-managed LXC containers, some running hostapd > instances with various access point configurations and some used for > NetworkManager development and a mac80211_hwsim radio in each of them. > > An unfortunate side-effect is that my dmesg becomes next to useless due > to the overwhelming amount of mac80211_hwsim logging. Perhaps convert some of these to debugfs output? Otherwise, many or most of these seem to be function tracing type calls that could or should use ftrace.
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[PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: use dyndbg for debug messages Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk> - 2017-06-28 15:30 +0200
Re: [PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: use dyndbg for debug messages Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2017-06-28 15:40 +0200
Re: [PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: use dyndbg for debug messages Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> - 2017-06-28 17:10 +0200
Re: [PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: use dyndbg for debug messages Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> - 2017-06-28 17:10 +0200
Re: [PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: use dyndbg for debug messages Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk> - 2017-06-28 21:20 +0200
Re: [PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: use dyndbg for debug messages Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2017-06-28 21:30 +0200
Re: [PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: use dyndbg for debug messages Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> - 2017-06-29 15:10 +0200
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