From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from purkki.adurom.net ([80.68.90.206]:33070 "EHLO purkki.adurom.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750773AbaBHGiI (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Feb 2014 01:38:08 -0500 From: Kalle Valo To: Luca Coelho Cc: Larry Finger , Johannes Berg , Calvin Owens , "David S. Miller" , "John W. Linville" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ieee80211: Print human-readable disassoc/deauth reason codes References: <1391651088-31785-1-git-send-email-jcalvinowens@gmail.com> <1391675824.12789.3.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> <87r47fkrsj.fsf@purkki.adurom.net> <52F4FFD5.5070808@lwfinger.net> <1391811934.18534.54.camel@porter.coelho.fi> Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 08:38:03 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1391811934.18534.54.camel@porter.coelho.fi> (Luca Coelho's message of "Sat, 08 Feb 2014 00:25:34 +0200") Message-ID: <87mwi2kt2s.fsf@purkki.adurom.net> (sfid-20140208_073828_164130_E468090F) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Luca Coelho writes: >> 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. > > But is it worth putting this parsing in the *kernel*? I mean, if anyone > is interested enough in the problem, a simple google query is not that > hard, right? Sure, it's not hard to find it. My and Larry's point is more about convenience and user friendliness. On the other hand I do understand that kernel is getting bloated all the time, for example openwrt is suffering from that. So not really sure what is the best. -- Kalle Valo