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From: Lekensteyn <lekensteyn@gmail.com>
To: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>,
	Intel Linux Wireless <ilw@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Why "iwlwifi: read multiple MAC addresses"?
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:11:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3586963.qbQ3i1FPTG@penguin> (raw)

Hi Wey-Yi,

I wonder what the following commit is used for:
commit c6fa17ed3fadaf056173c409c0877df428a152ec
Author: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Date:   Thu Jul 15 05:58:30 2010 -0700

    iwlwifi: read multiple MAC addresses

    Some devices may have multiple MAC
    addresses in their EEPROM, read them
    and advertise them to cfg80211.

I was trying to debug wireless issues, and noticed that I had two MAC 
addresses with only the last bit being different:

    $ cat /sys/class/ieee80211/phy0/addresses
    00:23:14:xx:xx:x8
    00:23:14:xx:xx:x9

Looking at a dump provided by /sys/kernel/debug/cfg80211/phy0/iwlwifi/data/nvm, 
I see that the 16-bit word at 0x98 contains the value 4. What does this mean? 
Can this break something?

If you are interested, the wireless card I own is a Centrino Advanced-N 6200 
(device ID 422c, rev 35). I can reproduce this behaviour on Linux 3.4.2, 3.5-
rc1 (the wireless testing tree from 2012-06-11) and 3.3.5.

Regards,
Peter

             reply	other threads:[~2012-06-12 13:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-12 13:11 Lekensteyn [this message]
2012-06-12 19:58 ` Why "iwlwifi: read multiple MAC addresses"? Johannes Berg
2012-06-12 20:07   ` Lekensteyn
2012-06-13  6:02     ` Johannes Berg

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