From: Lekensteyn <lekensteyn@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>,
Intel Linux Wireless <ilw@linux.intel.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why "iwlwifi: read multiple MAC addresses"?
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 22:07:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3484697.jSSpon72n2@penguin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1339531131.4531.22.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>
On Tuesday 12 June 2012 21:58:51 Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 15:11 +0200, Lekensteyn wrote:
> > 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?
> The 4 actually means that there are 4 addresses assigned to this device,
> for use in P2P scenarios etc. We only support 2 virtual interfaces in
> Linux today, so we don't expose 4 (though we probably could.)
>
> > Can this break something?
>
> No.
Okay, thanks for your quick answer. I have noticed that the first address is
stored at 0x3A while the second one is stored at 0x92. Did you make an
assumption that this address is other address + 1?
Regards,
Peter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-12 20:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-12 13:11 Why "iwlwifi: read multiple MAC addresses"? Lekensteyn
2012-06-12 19:58 ` Johannes Berg
2012-06-12 20:07 ` Lekensteyn [this message]
2012-06-13 6:02 ` Johannes Berg
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