From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: garbaged AP mac address in dmesg in wireless-testing?
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:38:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090116183826.GC10037@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3ace41890901160907w2d04da91r61744477ac64e018@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 05:07:50PM +0000, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> Since a few days ago, my dmesg is looking like this - instead of the
> older AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF form
> with the mac address of the AP.
> That ffff88* looks like a pointer/address to me? Is this change intentional?
>
> --------------
> wlan2 direct probe responded
> wlan2: authenticate with AP ffff880070995aa0
> wlan2: authenticated
> wlan2: associate with AP ffff880070995aa0
> wlan2: RX ReassocResp from ffff88001431f01a (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=1)
> wlan2: associated
Odd...some problem with the "%pM" printk conversion? What kernel
are you running?
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-16 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-16 17:07 garbaged AP mac address in dmesg in wireless-testing? Hin-Tak Leung
2009-01-16 18:38 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2009-01-16 18:59 ` Kalle Valo
2009-01-16 19:13 ` Hauke Mehrtens
2009-01-16 19:20 ` John W. Linville
2009-01-16 22:06 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2009-01-16 22:15 ` Hin-Tak Leung
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