On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 ;) There bugs in command parsing in v29 grab v30 beta where this bugs are fixed. Tomas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
