linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] ieee80211: Print human-readable disassoc/deauth reason codes

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Date:	Tue, 11 Feb 2014 09:13:57 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Calvin Owens <jcalvinowens@...il.com>
Cc:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] ieee80211: Print human-readable disassoc/deauth
 reason codes

On Tue, 2014-02-11 at 10:37 -0600, Calvin Owens wrote:
> Create a function to return a descriptive string for each reason code,
> and print that in addition to 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.
[]
>  include/net/mac80211.h | 10 +++++++++
>  net/mac80211/main.c    | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  net/mac80211/mlme.c    | 12 +++++------
>  3 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Is there a reason why all of this this shouldn't
be a static function local to mlme.c?

Is this ever going to be used somewhere else?


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