mwifiex: don't print SSID to logs
There are a few reasons not to dump SSIDs as-is in kernel logs: 1) they're not guaranteed to be any particular text encoding (UTF-8, ASCII, ...) in general 2) it's somewhat redundant; the BSSID should be enough to uniquely identify the AP/STA to which we're connecting 3) BSSIDs have an easily-recognized format, whereas SSIDs do not (they are free-form) 4) other common drivers (e.g., everything based on mac80211) get along just fine by only including BSSIDs when logging state transitions Additional notes on reason #3: this is important for the privacy-conscious, especially when providing tools that convey kernel logs on behalf of a user -- e.g., when reporting bugs. So for example, it's easy to automatically filter logs for MAC addresses, but it's much harder to filter SSIDs out of unstructured text. Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210225024454.4106485-1-briannorris@chromium.org
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