lack of textual messages in the logs

[Jouni Malinen]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 10:50:41AM +0300, defanor wrote:
> 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.

These wpa_msg() calls with defined prefixes like that
WPA_EVENT_DISCONNECTED are really meant for upper layer programs, not
users, to parse.. Such an upper layer component could then convert this
to more user friendly indication.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA