On 09/05/2012 04:13 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:

On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 14:43 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:

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The wext code checks is the event data is within size limits.
When this check fails a message is logged with violating size.
This patch adds the event id to put us on the right track for
resolving that violation.

Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <redacted>
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Maybe wext is not popular, but I found the change helpful debugging
so others may benefit from it. Still some wireless apps default to
it, eg. wpa_supplicant.

I don't even want to know what you're debugging, but I applied it
anyway.

FWIW, wext isn't just "not popular", it's "pretty much dead" :-)

johannes

We got the "Wireless Event too big" message and were wondering what 
event from our driver was causing it. I agree wext is pretty much dead 
although wpa_supplicant still defaults to that driver. At least in most 
distro's it seems to be so.

Gr. AvS