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

From: Joe Perches
Date: Mon Feb 10 2014 - 11:39:35 EST


On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 12:09 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 20:44 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
>
> > Perhaps use a more common kernel style
> >
> > struct ieee80211_reason_descriptions {
> > u16 code;
> > const char * desc;
> > }
> >
> > and enumerate the reason codes with #defines and use a
> > macro to populate the descriptions
> >
> > #define IEEE80211_REASON_RESERVED 0
> > #define IEEE80211_REASON_UNSPECIFIED 1
[]
> Isn't it more efficient to just let the compiler generate it with a big
> switch() statement?

That'd be fine too.

The benefit of the #defines is that you typically
get an external .h file for the entries.

Calvin's suggested code looked pretty fragile.


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