Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 07 Feb 2014 09:46:29 -0600 | From | Larry Finger <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ieee80211: Print human-readable disassoc/deauth reason codes |
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On 02/07/2014 06:53 AM, Kalle Valo wrote: > 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.
I would also find it useful. I assist with wireless problems on the openSUSE Forum, and there we are lucky if we get dmesg output. When we do and it contains a deauthentication reason, I always need to bring up a web page to interpret the output. With this change, one step could be skipped.
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