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Re: Incorrect mesh path seq num

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On Fri, 2017-09-01 at 13:07 -0700, Thomas Pedersen wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 11:30 PM, Greg Maitz <ghh19622@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > 
> > I'm seeing a problem when I work on the wireless mesh between two
> > linux devices. The root node has 3.18 kernel while the next hop
> > station runs 2.6.37 kernel. I found the mpath->sn value is
> > incorrect
> > most of the time on the device having 2.6.37 kernel. After
> > examining
> > the code, in function hwmp_route_info_get [mesh_hwmp.c], after
> > mesh_path_lookup, the sequence number (i.e, mpath->sn) is
> > incorrect.
> > For instance, I see mpath->sn having value 0x30950000. It should be
> > 0x9530, while the orig_sn is having value 0x9531.
> 
> Looks like an endianess bug. Are you testing on two platforms of
> different endianess?

Even if that's the case, wouldn't it mean some kind of conversion is
missing somewhere?

johannes



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