Re: garbaged AP mac address in dmesg in wireless-testing?

[Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>]

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Kalle Valo wrote:
> "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> writes:
> 
>> 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
> 
> Works for me:
> 
> [37125.111672] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:12:17:e7:98:de
> [37125.113509] wlan0: authenticated
> [37125.113514] wlan0: associate with AP 00:12:17:e7:98:de
> [37125.115875] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:12:17:e7:98:de (capab=0x11 status=0 aid=1)
> [37125.115881] wlan0: associated
> 
> This is on x86 32bit with iwl3945 and latest wireless-testing.
> 
>> Odd...some problem with the "%pM" printk conversion?  What kernel
>> are you running?
> 
> And on what architecture?
> 

I have got the same problem on x86_64 with rtl8187, kernel 2.6.27 and
compat-wireless-2008-01-16.

[ 3064.480766] wlan0: authenticate with AP ffff8801291dfa20
[ 3064.482271] wlan0: authenticated
[ 3064.482275] wlan0: associate with AP ffff8801291dfa20
[ 3064.485021] wlan0: RX AssocResp from ffff88011128c01a (capab=0x411
status=0 aid=1)
[ 3064.485025] wlan0: associated

Hauke


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