#7630 NORM 8.2.0 (: Rx Invalid Frag numbers from /sbin/iwconfig msh0

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#7630: Rx Invalid Frag numbers from /sbin/iwconfig msh0
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 Reporter:  mbletsas      |         Owner:  mbletsas            
     Type:  defect        |        Status:  new                 
 Priority:  normal        |     Milestone:  8.2.0 (was Update.2)
Component:  not assigned  |       Version:  not specified       
 Keywords:                |   Next_action:  never set           
 Verified:  0             |     Blockedby:                      
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 Reported by Marcus Leach

 David Woodhouse's comments:

 > From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org>
 > Date: July 10, 2008 3:50:38 PM EDT
 > To: John Watlington <wad at laptop.org>
 > Subject: Re: Fwd: Rx Invalid Frag numbers from /sbin/iwconfig msh0
 >
 > John Watlington wrote:
 >>> Does anyone here know precisely what the numbers related to Rx
 >>> invalid
 >>> frag (/sbin/iwconfig msh0) actually mean on the XO?
 >>>
 >>> I'm seeing very large numbers--with large deltas.  Sometimes as
 >>> much as
 >>> 20000 of these per second.
 >
 > A quick glance at the driver would suggest that the answer is
 > 'nothing'. I don't think we fill in priv->wstats.discard.fragment
 > at all, in the lbs_get_wireless_stats() routine. It's probably
 > random information leaking from kernel space; I suspect we should
 > fix it.
 >
 > --
 > dwmw2
 >

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7630>
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