regulatory: Rename confusing 'country IE' in log output
authorToke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
Thu, 19 Apr 2018 09:17:38 +0000 (11:17 +0200)
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Thu, 19 Apr 2018 14:57:20 +0000 (16:57 +0200)
The 'country IE' messages in the log can be confusing and make people think
that the country code has been set to Ireland. Fix this by changing the
log messages to use 'country element' instead (as they are no longer called
'information element' in the spec anyway).

Reported-by: Bernhard Gabler <Bernhard_Gabler@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
net/wireless/reg.c

index 16c7e4e..ecfee5f 100644 (file)
@@ -1652,7 +1652,7 @@ const char *reg_initiator_name(enum nl80211_reg_initiator initiator)
        case NL80211_REGDOM_SET_BY_DRIVER:
                return "driver";
        case NL80211_REGDOM_SET_BY_COUNTRY_IE:
-               return "country IE";
+               return "country element";
        default:
                WARN_ON(1);
                return "bug";
@@ -2618,7 +2618,7 @@ reg_process_hint_country_ie(struct wiphy *wiphy,
                 * This doesn't happen yet, not sure we
                 * ever want to support it for this case.
                 */
-               WARN_ONCE(1, "Unexpected intersection for country IEs");
+               WARN_ONCE(1, "Unexpected intersection for country elements");
                return REG_REQ_IGNORE;
        }