Re: [PATCH] net: mac80211: remove/avoid misleading prints

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>]

James Prestwood <prestwoj@gmail.com> writes:

> At some point a few kernel debug prints started appearing which
> indicated something was sending invalid IEs:
>
> "bad VHT capabilities, disabling VHT"
> "Invalid HE elem, Disable HE"
>
> Turns out these were being printed because the local hardware
> supported HE/VHT but the peer/AP did not. Bad/invalid indicates,
> to me at least, that the IE is in some way malformed, not missing.
>
> For the HE print (ieee80211_verify_peer_he_mcs_support) it will
> now silently fail if the HE capability element is missing (still
> prints if the element size is wrong).
>
> For the VHT print, it has been removed completely and will silently
> set the DISABLE_VHT flag which is consistent with how DISABLE_HT
> is set.
>
> Signed-off-by: James Prestwood <prestwoj@gmail.com>

This has been cluttering my test logs as well, thanks for fixing this.
But the title should be:

wifi: mac80211: remove/avoid misleading prints

I assume Johannes can fix it during commit.

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