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Yes, I confirmed it to be due to mismatched structures of
ieee80211_rann_ie between the two versions. Issue resolved.

On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 5:58 AM, Thomas Pedersen <thomas@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 6:19 AM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Yes. I looked for a missing conversion, but couldn't find it.
>
> Greg, where / how are you printing mpath->sn? mpath dump or a printk you added?
>
> --
> thomas



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