Re: Standard defined field names in Wireshark dissectors

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Jan 5, 2020, at 8:06 AM, Tomasz Moń <desowin () gmail com> wrote:

> In case of the USB Audio descriptor dissection, I would like to change
> the header_field_info name, leaving abbrev as is. Would that still
> cause problems?

It would cause problems for programs that parse TShark -T text (default text) output (or "export the packet dissections 
as plain text" Wireshark output), but programs should avoid doing that if possible - they should use other -T formats, 
in which the abbrev is used.

It shouldn't cause problem for any other software; filters, for example, use the abbrev.  ("abbrev" should be thought 
of as the field name, and "name" should be thought of as the field *description*.)

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