From: David Lamparter <lists@diac24.net>
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 22:06:51 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: [PATCH] cfg80211: fix signed macaddress in sysfs
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.22-rc5~39^2~7^2~2
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c9aca9da026036306aa00a928f6acb4b94eb3c33;p=linux-2.6

[PATCH] cfg80211: fix signed macaddress in sysfs

Fix signedness mixup making mac addresses show up strangely
(like 00:11:22:33:44:ffffffaa) in /sys/class/ieee80211/*/macaddress.

Signed-off-by: David Lamparter <equinox@diac24.net>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
---

diff --git a/net/wireless/sysfs.c b/net/wireless/sysfs.c
index 3ebae14429..88aaacd9f8 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]);