Hi there,
I have been digging into the IEEE 802.11 related code for a couple of days and
need to clarify some points (or get my interpretation of the code confirmed :}
). So, here are some gray areas I have;
1 ) ioctl(2) returns a memory address (in i_data field of ireq structure) which
points a series of "ieee80211req_scan_result" structures when request type is
IEEE80211_IOC_SCAN_RESULTS, and it is the programmer's responsibility to parse
the returned data in a proper way?
The code for list_scan(int) in sbin/ifconfig/ifieee80211.c is a good example to
this?
2 ) The "mesh" networking related parts of "ieee80211req_scan_result" structure
are IEEE 802.11s additions?
3 ) A "ieee80211req_scan_result" structure can either have an SSID or a MESH
ID? If so, in the code snippet below (from sbin/ifconfig/ifieee80211.c)
/* cp points a memory location returned by ioctl(2)
* when request = IEEE80211_IOC_SCAN_RESULTS
*/
const uint8_t *vp, *idp;
sr = (const struct ieee80211req_scan_result *) cp;
vp = cp + sr->isr_ie_off;
if (sr->isr_meshid_len) {
idp = vp + sr->isr_ssid_len;
idlen = sr->isr_meshid_len;
} else {
idp = vp;
idlen = sr->isr_ssid_len;
}
why don't we have
if (sr->isr_meshid_len) {
idp = vp + sr->isr_meshid_len; /* THIS LINE */
idlen = sr->isr_meshid_len;
} else {
idp = vp;
idlen = sr->isr_ssid_len;
}
Assuming the memory is organized like this
+-------------------+----+------+---------+
| Fixed Size struct | IE | SSID | MESH ID |
+-------------------+----+------+---------+
4 ) NET80211(4) manual page does not include the description of
ieee80211req_scan_result structure. Would be good to have in the manual page
rather than reading the net80211/ieee80211_ioctl.h file.
I am happy to submit a patch if you aggree that a definition of
ieee80211req_scan_result should appear in net80211(4). This will be freebsd-doc
related issue then.
Regards
Fehmi
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