On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 15:11 +0200, Lekensteyn wrote: > I wonder what the following commit is used for: > commit c6fa17ed3fadaf056173c409c0877df428a152ec > Author: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thu Jul 15 05:58:30 2010 -0700 > > iwlwifi: read multiple MAC addresses That commit is so that you see this: > I was trying to debug wireless issues, and noticed that I had two MAC > addresses with only the last bit being different: > > $ cat /sys/class/ieee80211/phy0/addresses > 00:23:14:xx:xx:x8 > 00:23:14:xx:xx:x9 > > Looking at a dump provided by /sys/kernel/debug/cfg80211/phy0/iwlwifi/data/nvm, > I see that the 16-bit word at 0x98 contains the value 4. What does this mean? The 4 actually means that there are 4 addresses assigned to this device, for use in P2P scenarios etc. We only support 2 virtual interfaces in Linux today, so we don't expose 4 (though we probably could.) > Can this break something? No. 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
