[Prism54-devel] implementation of sub-ioctls

[Aquila]

Hi Aurelien,

Far be it from me to criticise but I believe the
Beaconperiod OID does work. At least it works on my
system.

I get the value of the beaconperiod OID (which is 64)
and I see the beacon interval on the sniffer as 0.1024
seconds.

I set the OID (0x11000001) with a value of 100 and
because it's a latched object (as the manual clearly
indicates), I set the SSID after that.

I can now do a get of the beaconperiod OID and the
value reads back as 100, and on the sniffer I see that
the beacon interval is now 0.262144 seconds.

So I'd have to disagree and say that it does work
properly.

That might be a bit out of context with the subject
but I thought I'd just say that it does work on my
system.

As for the sub-ioctls, I agree with Aurelien that 32
private IOCTLs should be enough for a simple user
case. Just bare in mind that there are developers that
are using this driver in embedded systems and they
will need more. I can't imagine why they would use the
wireless tools on an embedded platform but hey it's
just a though.

Regards,


-----Original Message-----
From: prism54-devel-admin@prism54.org
[mailto:prism54-devel-admin@prism54.org] On Behalf Of
Aurelien
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 11:13 AM
To: prism54-devel@prism54.org
Subject: Re: [Prism54-devel] implementation of
sub-ioctls


On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 10:41:04 +0000 (Local time zone
must be set--see zic manual page) David Pufer
<root@seznam.cz> wrote:

> Hello all,
> I have just started tweaking the driver. I would
like to submit the
> following patch that adds sub-ioctls support to
private ioctls. As a 
> sample code I implemented more private ioctls
(Preamble settings, 
> operation mode profile setting, slot setting). I
also moved 
> getBeaconPeriod and setBeaconPeriod to the sub-ioctl
handler. In addition 
> I added these parameters to MIB. I tested the patch
against 20031129 CVS 
> tarball on my SMC 2802W and it seems to work withou
problems.
> 
> David Pufer

Why would we need subioctls ? We have space for 32
privates ioctls and that's probably enough. Or maybe
you have some ioctls consuming idea ? Moreover setting
some param on the card is useless. eg : the set/get
beacon period does nothing. And there are probably
other oids that are read only...

...And justice for all
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