Messages in this thread | | | From | Kalle Valo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ieee80211: Print human-readable disassoc/deauth reason codes | Date | Fri, 07 Feb 2014 14:53:32 +0200 |
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Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> writes:
> On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 19:44 -0600, Calvin Owens wrote: >> Create a function to return a descriptive string for each reason code, >> and print that instead of the numeric value in the kernel log. These >> codes are easily found on popular search engines, but one is generally >> not able to access the internet when dealing with wireless connectivity >> issues. > > I believe both iw and wpa_supplicant already have the reason code > printout, and if you're diagnosing connectivity issues then you're > probably using those anyway (e.g. iw event -t), so I don't really see > much point in adding this to the kernel?
FWIW I find this useful. When I have connection problems I rarely look at wpasupplicant, mostly I'm so lazy that I just check from the kernel log what's happening. Just my 0.02 EUR.
-- Kalle Valo
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