On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 09:31 -0800, Ben Greear wrote: > >>> This looks like it has endian bugs. Note that sband->ht_cap is > >>> ieee80211_sta_ht_cap, whereas sdata->u.mgd.ht_capa[_mask] is > >>> ieee80211_ht_cap -- the latter is in IEEE format (LE) while the former > >>> is in a complete different format that's easier to digest for the > >>> CPU :-) > >> > >> So, the ht-caps& mask data coming from user-space via netlink > >> should be in network-byte order? > > > > It is that way right now, and that makes sense. > > Ok, I think I am using host-byte-order currently in my iw > and hostap patches, which is why everything works for me. > > But, I'll flip that all around.... You're using x86 so 802.11 byte order == CPU byte order... Be careful: "network byte order" usually means big endian... johannes -- 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
