lack of textual messages in the logs

defanor defanor at uberspace.net
Tue Jul 4 00:50:41 PDT 2017


Hello.

Some of the logs that wpa_supplicant writes are hard to read without
having access to its sources. This one, for instance (copied from
version 2.4, though apparently it's present in 2.6 as well, along with
other similar ones):

	wpa_msg(wpa_s, MSG_INFO, WPA_EVENT_DISCONNECTED "bssid=" MACSTR
		" reason=%d locally_generated=1",
		MAC2STR(wpa_s->own_addr), WLAN_REASON_DEAUTH_LEAVING);

A user only sees the error code (with no explanation in the man page),
while a textual message would have been much more useful.



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