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Re: Why "iwlwifi: read multiple MAC addresses"?

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On Tuesday 12 June 2012 21:58:51 Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 15:11 +0200, Lekensteyn wrote:
> > 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.

Okay, thanks for your quick answer. I have noticed that the first address is 
stored at 0x3A while the second one is stored at 0x92. Did you make an 
assumption that this address is other address + 1?

Regards,
Peter
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