Re: [PATCH] reg: Rename confusing 'country IE' in log output

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Fri, 2018-04-20 at 00:32 +0200, Bernhard Gabler wrote:

> looking at the patch, I see more occurences of the outdated "IE" in a 
> constant name and function name:
> 
>          case NL80211_REGDOM_SET_BY_COUNTRY_IE:
> or
>          reg_process_hint_country_ie()


Right. I searched for further strings that would show up to the user,
but didn't see any, but the code still refers to it in many places.

> Would it make sense to likewise fix these (and possibly more) 
> occurrences too, to match the spec from 2016?
> For the sake of readability and consistency of code ...

I dunno. Country IE isn't the only place where "IE" is used, it's even
used in struct names (struct ieee80211_tim_ie, and many others), so I
would think that people who actually work on the code will have to be
aware of the previous wording of "Information Element" (and the
abbreviation IE) anyway. Changing *everything* here to be just _element
instead of _ie or then probably the shorter _elem would IMHO be too much
code churn.

johannes