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Re: iwconfig power timeout

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On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 13:06 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:

> I don't think so. If mac80211 responds with -EINVAL the error would be
> something like this:
> 
> $ iwconfig wlan0 power 5m
> Error for wireless request "Set Power Management" (8B2C) :
>     SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not permitted.

That looks like -EPERM. But then iwconfig always had messed up error
handling.

> So the error seems to happen happen during argument parsing. Oh yeah,
> and I even had a printk in mac80211 and it wasn't printed. 

Ok I'm convinced then :)

> I'm going
> to investigate this with gdb and try to understand how iwconfig really
> parses the arguments.

Well there is source code too ;)

johannes

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