Re: [PATCH] ieee80211: Print human-readable disassoc/deauth reasoncodes

[Larry Finger]

On 02/07/2014 06:53 AM, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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