Re: [english 95%] QUESTIONS to ieee80211_beacon_get AND ieee80211_get_buffered_bc

[Joe <wirelesss@gmx.de>]

Hello Johannes,

thanks to your helpfull support, which enabled me to precise my request, 
which I edited in the follows:
> Hy all,
>
> I have a question to he two methods:
>
> ieee80211_beacon_get
> ieee80211_get_buffered_bc
> in tx.c
>
> Both are called by the hardware driver to get a current beacon from 
> the ieee80211 stack. Thereby the ieee80211_beacon_get is called 
> normally. The other method is just called, if a buffered /multicast 
> channel(DTIM) is needed or used - but necessaryly the 
> ieee80211_beacon_get must be called before. Is this right?
> So if I want to manipulate the beacons send out I would start at 
> ieee80211_beacon_get right?
>
> How often refresh the hardwaredriver usually the requested beacon? 
> Does "Returned skb is used only once and low-level driver is 
> responsible of freeing it." means, that the method is called always 
> when new Beacon frame will be transmitted? Or does this depend on the 
> hardware?
> Which kind of hardwaredrivers does allready utilize this methods, isit 
> allready the standard way to transfer the generation of the beacons to 
> the stack?
>
> An total independent question: Following the suggestion of Holger 
> Schurig I started to extend the Glossary in the wiki (with the 
> abbreviations in the source code) a few hours ago, but My extension 
> was removed again. Why?
>
> All the Best
> Sebastian