linux-kernel - Re: Regression in 2.6.27-git from commit 43ac2ca3840f64

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Date:	Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:30:36 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
Cc:	Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@...eros.com>,
	wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	John Linville <linville@...driver.com>
Subject: Re: Regression in 2.6.27-git from commit 43ac2ca3840f64

On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 09:01 -0700, Larry Finger wrote:
> On my x86_64 system, the mainline 2.6.27-git kernel (v2.6.27-6030-g6da0b38)
> shows the following anomaly with the 'iwlist scan' command:
> 
>           Cell 03 - Address: 00:14:BF:85:49:FA
>                     ESSID:"lwfdjf"
>                     Mode:Master
>                     Channel:1
>                     Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
>                     Quality=66/100  Signal level:-62 dBm  Noise level=-68 dBm
>                     Encryption key:on
>                     IE: Unknown: 00066C7766646A66
>                     IE: Unknown: 010882848B962430486C
>                     IE: Unknown: 030101
>                     IE: Unknown: 2A0104
>                     IE: Unknown: 2F0104
>                     IE: Unknown: 32040C121860
>                     IE: Unknown: DD09001018020014000000
>                     IE: WPA Version 1
>                         Group Cipher : TKIP
>                         Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
>                         Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
>                     Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
>                               24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
>                               12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
>                     Extra:tsf=0000014488aeb18b
>                     Extra: Last beacon: 448ms ago
> 
> This problem was bisected to commit 43ac2ca3840f64f699a239535c590fa7ebaaac27,
> entitled "mac80211: Handle scan result IEs in one block". The same bug is
> present in the wireless-testing tree.

I'm probably too tired, what exactly is the problem?

johannes

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