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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Header field (hf_) in packet-ieee80211.c

From: Stephen Fisher <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:26:15 -0700
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 06:55:51PM +0100, Anders Broman wrote:

> I think the hf variables should be prefixed with hf_ieee80211 to 
> follow the style of other dissectors, unfortunately that's a bit long, 
> hf_80211, hf_wifi? if hf_ieee80211 is used throughout it's ease to 
> shorten it later.

How about just 80211?  I noticed yesterday that the protocol column is 
quite wide when looking at raw 802.11 traffic (such as that from AirPcap 
w/o decryption), it shows "IEEE 802.11" when "802.11" would probably 
suffice.