net.link.log_link_state_change broken?

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Paul B Mahol wrote:

Hi,

> It appears we do not log such events anymore (at least with wlan
> devices) in console.
>
> I set this sysctl to 0 via sysctl.conf, if I set it to 1, nothing will change.
>
> Because I had loging disabled for very long time I encountered this
> problem just now.

not sure.  Might be, might not be.  Have you further looked into this?

I at least see:
./net80211/ieee80211_freebsd.c:         if_link_state_change(ifp, LINK_STATE_UP);
./net80211/ieee80211_freebsd.c:         if_link_state_change(ifp, LINK_STATE_DOWN);

maybe a good start to search from there?

/bz

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