Andrew Thompson wrote:
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 09:40:35PM +0200, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
Hi,
on July 11th you removed the definition for struct wi_req on -CURRENT
from sys/dev/wi/if_wavelan_ieee.h with the following commit message
revision 1.21
date: 2007/07/11 21:25:48; author: thompsa; state: Exp; lines: +2 -0
Now that wicontrol has been removed from the base system the corresponding
ioctls can be removed. These have been #ifdef'd out and left as a reference in
case any of the RIDs need to be turned into sysctls at a later date.
Reviewed by: sam, avatar
Approved by: re (kensmith)
I don't know why, but recently at least the ports xwlans and wmwifi fail
to build because of the missing definition, I guess. bsd-airtools has
recently been flagged as broken, too. Presumably due to the same reason.
Up until that commit wi(4) was the only driver to support the
SIOCGWAVELAN calls, now it has been totally removed in favour of the
net80211 systems.
How should these ports deal with this? Both are calling SIOCGWAVELAN
with wi_type set to WI_RID_COMMS_QUALITY.
I guess these ports should be updated to use the IEEE80211_IOC_SCAN_REQ
and IEEE80211_IOC_SCAN_RESULTS ioctls. These are driver independent and
supported by all the wireless drivers, src/sbin/ifconfig/ifieee80211.c
is a good reference.
I see that wmwifi-bsd.patch from wmwifi could be updated reasonably
easy, I can help if you like.
This issue came to me previously and I said basically the same
thing--the old api's were deprecated long ago (w/ the promise to pull
the plug in 7.0). For example, I offered an updated dstumbler that read
radiotap with libpcap for many years but noone updated the port.
Anything wireless should use the current ioctls and if there are any
issues I will help. As Andrew mentioned ifconfig is the best reference
for the moment (though I have changes to make the code less of a
steaming pile of hacks). The best solution would be for someone to take
the ifconfig code and write a library.
Sam
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