Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Feb 2014 14:50:12 -0600 | From | Calvin Owens <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ieee80211: Print human-readable disassoc/deauth reason codes |
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On Thursday 02/06 at 09:37 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > 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? > > johannes
Ah, I didn't realize `iw` would interpret the reason code for you.
There were a couple of other replies expressing interest in this though. Should I rewrite the patch per Joe Perches' suggestions and resend it? Or should I just drop it since you can obtain the info from `iw`?
Thanks, Calvin
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