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Re: [PATCH] nl80211: fix tx_control_port trace point

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On 3/4/20 1:16 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-03-04 at 12:49 +0100, Markus Theil wrote:
>> Endianess conversion should not happen when writing out the string,
>> instead convert proto endiannes when creating the trace point data,
>> like its already done for control port rx.
>>
>> Without this patch, trace looks like:
>> <...>-53819 [000] 12957.654875: rdev_tx_control_port: [FAILED TO PARSE]
>>   wiphy_name=phy0 name=wlan0 ifindex=3 dest=ARRAY[dc, 7b, 94, a5, bb, 3e]
>>   proto=36488 unencrypted=1
>>
>> After applying this patch:
>> wpa_supplicant-553   [001]   121.211264: rdev_tx_control_port: phy0,
>>   netdev:wlan0(3), dc:7b:94:a5:bb:3e, proto: 0x888e, unencrypted: true
> This is from trace-cmd? That just means it doesn't know about the endian
> conversion, but I don't really see any reason to change this - big
> endian is a perfectly valid format for trace points?
>
> Maybe teach trace-cmd to understand it? We already did that for
> __le16_to_cpu().
Maybe, but then this is also inconsistent in comparison to the same kind of
conversion in control port rx. I think, both calls should have the same
conversion
(be that introducing the fn to trace-cmd or converting the input data
for tx control port).
> johannes
>



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