Re: [PATCH] wext: include wireless event id when it has a size problem

["Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>]

On 09/05/2012 04:13 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 14:43 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>> The wext code checks is the event data is within size limits.
>> When this check fails a message is logged with violating size.
>> This patch adds the event id to put us on the right track for
>> resolving that violation.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
>> ---
>> Maybe wext is not popular, but I found the change helpful debugging
>> so others may benefit from it. Still some wireless apps default to
>> it, eg. wpa_supplicant.
>
> I don't even want to know what you're debugging, but I applied it
> anyway.
>
> FWIW, wext isn't just "not popular", it's "pretty much dead" :-)
>
> johannes
>
>

We got the "Wireless Event too big" message and were wondering what 
event from our driver was causing it. I agree wext is pretty much dead 
although wpa_supplicant still defaults to that driver. At least in most 
distro's it seems to be so.

Gr. AvS