Re: 2.6.18-mm1 -- ieee80211: Info elem: parse failed: info_element->len + 2 > left : info_element->len+2=28 left=9, id=221.

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On 9/27/06, Jesper Juhl <[email protected]> wrote:
On 27/09/06, Miles Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 9/26/06, Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > [added netdev]
> >
> > On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:04:40 -0700
> > "Miles Lane" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > ieee80211: Info elem: parse failed: info_element->len + 2 > left :
> > > info_element->len+2=28 left=9, id=221.
> > > ieee80211: Info elem: parse failed: info_element->len + 2 > left :
> > > info_element->len+2=28 left=9, id=221.
> > > ieee80211: Info elem: parse failed: info_element->len + 2 > left :
> > > info_element->len+2=28 left=9, id=221.
> > >
> > > >From dmesg output:
> > > ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
> > > ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <[email protected]>
> > > ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
> > > ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP'
> > > ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'CCMP'
> > > ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'TKIP'
> >
> > I suspect that whatever caused this is now in mainline.  Are you able to
> > test Linus's current git tree?
>
> Sorry, I don't have oodles of disk space free to hold all the git
> historical information (iirc, it's huge).
[snip]

You could just grab the latest snapshot (at the time of this writing
that's 2.6.18-git8) from kernel.org - that way you wouldn't get all
the historical git data.

Thanks Jesper.  I'll test this when I am back in the airport in a few days.
I'll add in the packet dump, if it's reproducible with 2.6.18-mm1.

   Miles
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