Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, 2018-04-20 at 00:32 +0200, Bernhard Gabler wrote: > >> looking at the patch, I see more occurences of the outdated "IE" in a >> constant name and function name: >> >> case NL80211_REGDOM_SET_BY_COUNTRY_IE: >> or >> reg_process_hint_country_ie() > > > Right. I searched for further strings that would show up to the user, > but didn't see any, but the code still refers to it in many places. > >> Would it make sense to likewise fix these (and possibly more) >> occurrences too, to match the spec from 2016? >> For the sake of readability and consistency of code ... > > I dunno. Country IE isn't the only place where "IE" is used, it's even > used in struct names (struct ieee80211_tim_ie, and many others), so I > would think that people who actually work on the code will have to be > aware of the previous wording of "Information Element" (and the > abbreviation IE) anyway. Changing *everything* here to be just _element > instead of _ie or then probably the shorter _elem would IMHO be too much > code churn. Also, no one is going to think that reg_process_hint_country_ie() has anything to do with Ireland. So it's just a matter of outdated terminology... -Toke
