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Bug 399747

Summary: net-wireless/broadcom-sta floods logs with "could not get rate/rssi"
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Ole Christensen <Ole.Christensen>
Component: New packagesAssignee: M. B. <tomboy64>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: minor CC: evan.teran, fpires82, peter, proxy-maint
Priority: Normal Keywords: PATCH
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: AMD64   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 468388    
Attachments: Fix to remove the error output from driver source
RSSI Log flood removal

Description Ole Christensen 2012-01-22 16:27:31 UTC
After updating to kernel 3.1.6 I get these two errors every few seconds:

Jan 22 17:16:48 dctn007 kernel: ERROR @wl_cfg80211_get_station : Could not get rate (-1)
Jan 22 17:16:48 dctn007 kernel: ERROR @wl_cfg80211_get_station : Could not get rssi (-1)

version is broadcom-sta-5.100.82.112-r2


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. modprobe wl
2. /etc/init.d/net.ethX start
3.
Actual Results:  
Many errors in syslog


Expected Results:  
No errors :-)


Patch for ebuild gets attached
Comment 1 Ole Christensen 2012-01-22 16:33:20 UTC
Created attachment 299551 [details, diff]
Fix to remove the error output from driver source

This is NOT an actual fix to the source of the problem. It just removes the error output in the driver. If someone could figure out as of which kernel version this problem occurs, the patch could be applied conditionally. In 2.6.36 the problem did not happen, in 3.1.6 it does.
Comment 2 Federico Pires 2012-07-24 20:31:17 UTC
Hello,

I noticed the same thing with hardened and gentoo sources 3.4.2 and 3.5.0, and I think it *might* have something to do with the fact that iwconfig does not always report the "Quality link" and "Bit rate" information.

I used a patch (attached) to remove the flood in syslog from this debian bug report:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=672677

I removed the first part, which is already present for the current ebuild in the other patches. 

I'm currently using the module, and the flood in the log is gone, and no issues so far with my wi fi. For what I understand, as Ole said, this does not look as an actual fix, but rather getting rid of the logging flood.

emerge --info

Portage 2.1.10.65 (hardened/linux/amd64, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.14.1-r3, 3.5.0-gentoo-glentoo-nohardened x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.5.0-gentoo-glentoo-nohardened-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i3_CPU_M_370_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.1
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:00:01 +0000
ccache version 3.1.7 [disabled]
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p20
dev-java/java-config:     2.1.11-r3
dev-lang/python:          2.7.3-r2, 3.2.3
dev-util/ccache:          3.1.7
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.7-r5
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.26
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.1-r1
sys-apps/openrc:          0.10.5
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.5
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.68
sys-devel/automake:       1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:       2.21.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc:            4.5.3-r2
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.6
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4-r1
sys-devel/make:           3.82-r1
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.4-r2 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.14.1-r3
Repositories: gentoo glentoo
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -mpopcnt -msse4.2 --param l1-cache-size=32 --param l1-cache-line-size=64 --param l2-cache-size=3072 -mtune=generic -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/maven-bin-3.0/conf /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -mpopcnt -msse4.2 --param l1-cache-size=32 --param l1-cache-line-size=64 --param l2-cache-size=3072 -mtune=generic -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--autounmask-write --jobs=3 --load-average=8.1 --keep-going --with-bdeps=y --complete-graph=y"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs candy config-protect-if-modified distlocks fail-clean fixlafiles news nodoc noinfo parallel-fetch parallel-install parse-eapi-ebuild-head protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.localhost.net.ar/ ftp://mirrors.localhost.net.ar/pub/mirrors/gentoo/"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="en es"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
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Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON

(In reply to comment #1)
> Created attachment 299551 [details, diff] [details, diff]
> Fix to remove the error output from driver source
> 
> This is NOT an actual fix to the source of the problem. It just removes the
> error output in the driver. If someone could figure out as of which kernel
> version this problem occurs, the patch could be applied conditionally. In
> 2.6.36 the problem did not happen, in 3.1.6 it does.
Comment 3 Federico Pires 2012-07-24 20:32:49 UTC
Created attachment 319132 [details, diff]
RSSI Log flood removal

written based on debian bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=672677
Comment 4 Evan Teran 2012-09-03 14:08:36 UTC
*** Bug 430134 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Peter Leugner 2012-09-27 19:40:48 UTC
Could the ebuild please call epatch_user, so we could use attached patches without hassle? That would be great....
Comment 6 M. B. 2013-04-26 04:45:01 UTC
This seems to be fixed by version 6.30.223.30 - see the latest ebuild in bug #438622

i'm afraid in version 5 of the driver this will be a WONTFIX.
Comment 7 M. B. 2013-05-03 00:04:36 UTC
Included the patch. It should hit upstream as soon as a dev commits it. Please refer to #438622 for further details.

Until then, get them from my overlay; tbc in layman.