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Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: fix signed macaddress in sysfs

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: 2007-06-04 11:41:09
Also in: linux-wireless

On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 00:06 +0200, David Lamparter wrote:
Fix signedness mixup making mac addresses show up strangely
(like 00:11:22:33:44:ffffffaa) in /sys/class/ieee80211/*/macaddress.
Huh, my mistake, patch looks good. Do we care for this in .22 still?

Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

quoted hunk
Signed-off-by: David Lamparter <redacted>
---

 net/wireless/sysfs.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/wireless/sysfs.c b/net/wireless/sysfs.c
index 7844be4..374d16d 100644
--- a/net/wireless/sysfs.c
+++ b/net/wireless/sysfs.c
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ static ssize_t _show_permaddr(struct device *dev,
                              struct device_attribute *attr,
                              char *buf)
 {
-       char *addr = dev_to_rdev(dev)->wiphy.perm_addr;
+       unsigned char *addr = dev_to_rdev(dev)->wiphy.perm_addr;
 
        return sprintf(buf, "%.2x:%.2x:%.2x:%.2x:%.2x:%.2x\n",
                       addr[0], addr[1], addr[2], addr[3], addr[4], addr[5]);
This probably should also use MAC_FMT/MAC_ARG, hah. Oh well, I'll fix it
up later.

johannes

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