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Date:	Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:57:21 +0800
From:	Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@...el.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>,
	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ipw2100-admin@...ux.intel.com,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Subject: Re: ipw2200: "ieee80211: Info elem: parse failed"

On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 19:23 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:17:34 +0200
> Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > since 2.6.19-rc1 I'm getting these messages from ipw2200 driver:
> > ieee80211: Info elem: parse failed: info_element->len + 2 > left : 
> > info_element->len+2=8 left=2, id=128.
> > 
> > The driver says:
> > ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.1.4km
> > ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
> > ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 3
> > PCI: setting IRQ 3 as level-triggered
> > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:07.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3
> > ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
> > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.2[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
> > 
> > and works, but the message is annoying, since the driver prints it again and 
> > again. What could be wrong?
> > 
> 
> I suspect it was always failing.  But the failure message has been changed
> so that it actually comes out.

This was already addressed by
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=116119388014674&w=2

Thanks,
-yi
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