On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 18:20 +0800, Daniel Mack wrote: > > > Since you indicate the kernel crashed, it is likely that libertas is > > > treating the buffer as a string, instead of an SSID. > > Ok, I dodn't know that - thanks for pointing it out. In my setup here, > SSIDs are always valid alphanumeric strings, and I was mislead by the > comment that mentions the NULL-termination. Yeah ... that's an unfortunate historic mistake in wireless extensions that we try to fix up there. It cannot always be successfully fixed up, but the NUL-termination is nothing that anything but this code should be worried about or rely on. > > drivers/net/wireless/libertas$ grep lbs_deb_ * | grep ssid|grep '%s' > > assoc.c: lbs_deb_join("current SSID '%s', ssid length %u\n", > > assoc.c: lbs_deb_join("requested ssid '%s', ssid length %u\n", > > assoc.c: lbs_deb_join("ADHOC_START: SSID '%s', ssid length %u\n", > > scan.c: lbs_deb_wext("set_scan, essid '%s'\n", > > Those macros are stubbed out as nops in my setup, so they can > unfortunately not be the reason. I'll dig deeper :) Well, the stack trace ought to help. johannes
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