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Subject: Re: net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_io.c:464:
warning: 'ieee80211softmac_send_ctl_frame' defined but not used
Date: Tuesday 23 May 2006 14:33
From: Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Toralf Förster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 19:48 +0200, Toralf Förster wrote:
> While playing with various kernel config I observed the warning above
> compiling 2.6.17-rc4-git10.
Yeah, known 'bug', we have that code there but never use it. Feel free
to submit a patch (to John Linville, CC netdev and softmac-dev) to
remove it.
johannes
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Here is a patch applicable fotr the current git kernel:
n22 ~ # cat patch_softmac
--- net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_io.c 2006-05-23 14:41:19.000000000
+0200
+++ net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_io.c_orig 2006-05-23
14:40:44.000000000 +0200
@@ -456,3 +456,31 @@
return IEEE80211_2ADDR_LEN;
}
+
+/* Sends a control packet */
+static int
+ieee80211softmac_send_ctl_frame(struct ieee80211softmac_device *mac,
+ struct ieee80211softmac_network *net, u32 type, u32 arg)
+{
+ void *pkt = NULL;
+ u32 pkt_size = 0;
+
+ switch(type) {
+ case IEEE80211_STYPE_RTS:
+ case IEEE80211_STYPE_CTS:
+ pkt_size = ieee80211softmac_rts_cts((struct
ieee80211_hdr_2addr **)(&pkt), mac, net, type);
+ break;
+ default:
+ printkl(KERN_DEBUG PFX "Unsupported Control Frame type: %i\n",
type);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
+ if(pkt_size == 0)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ /* Send the packet to the ieee80211 layer for tx */
+ ieee80211_tx_frame(mac->ieee, (struct ieee80211_hdr *) pkt, pkt_size);
+
+ kfree(pkt);
+ return 0;
+}
--
MfG/Sincerely
Toralf Förster
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