Bug#447549: linux-2.6: orinoco.c printk messages flood terminal

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> i am at a location where a nearby wireless router comes in and out of
> range, so i get a ton of "eth2: New link status: AP Out of Range (0004)" 
> and "eth2: New link status: AP In Range (0005)" messages on the active 
> terminal.  this makes it difficult to work (especially in vi).
> 
> i found a solution using "cat 6 > /proc/sys/kernel/printk" to suppress 
> KERN_INFO and KERN_DEBUG level printk messages.  i'm sure there are many 
> other users out there that are annoyed by the current behavior.  would it 
> be feasible to have level 6 as the default printk level in debian rather
> than 7?

hiding info, i'm sorry but that's not what people expect from debian,
 

> another possible solution would be for orinoco.c (which contains the
> code that prints these messages) to use the KERN_DEBUG printk level 
> instead of KERN_INFO.
i'm wondering why you are reporting this as bug against debian linux-images
we have no orinoco specific patch. please discuss that issue upstream
on linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org - any upstream change will directly
land into debian.

thanks

best regards

-- 
maks