Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 07:42:09 -0800 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Denis Barov <dindin@yandex-team.ru>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: net-mgmt/bsd-airtools broken not because of gcc4 Message-ID: <47332E51.8030700@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <20071108093531.GA65172@heff.fud.org.nz> References: <20071107182928.GA66533@sepulcator.local.yandex.ru> <473297D0.6010705@FreeBSD.org> <20071108055010.GA62962@heff.fud.org.nz> <20071108092241.GC1777@sepulcator.yandex.ru> <20071108093531.GA65172@heff.fud.org.nz>
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Andrew Thompson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 12:22:41PM +0300, Denis Barov wrote: > >> On Thu Nov 08, 2007 at 18:50:10 +1300, Andrew Thompson wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 08:00:00AM +0300, Sergey Matveychuk wrote: >>> >>>> Denis Barov wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi all! >>>>> I found, that port net-mgmt/bsd-airtools marked as broken: >>>>> BROKEN= Does not compile with GCC 4.2 >>>>> but, it's not really so. It's broken after Wed Jul 11 21:25:48 2007 UTC >>>>> commit by >>>>> thompsa@freebsd.org, when some ioctls was deleted from kernel. >>>>> For example, after patching /usr/include/dev/wi/if_wavelan_ieee.h >>>>> bsd-airtools compiled well: >>>>> --- /usr/include/dev/wi/if_wavelan_ieee.h 2007-11-07 >>>>> >>>> I guess you should back not just these header definitions but ioctl >>>> implementations too. Or ask thompsa if you could use something instead. >>>> >>> The net80211 system supports the IEEE80211_IOC_SCAN_REQ and >>> IEEE80211_IOC_SCAN_RESULTS ioctls which work on _all_ wireless >>> interfaces. These have been present since 6.0 and the above wi(4) >>> specific interface have been removed as the driver has been brought into >>> line. >>> >> Does that mean I need to rewrite some bsd-airtools code? >> > > Yes, src/sbin/ifconfig/ifieee80211.c is the best reference and others > have already converted other wireless scanning apps. > > I can't recall if dstumbler is part of airtools but I've had a hack port to the new ioctls sitting here for years: http://www.freebsd.org/~sam/dstumbler.tgz It's certainly bitrot'd. I gave up trying to get the maintainer's attention long ago. OTOH ifconfig's code is definitely the best reference right now. wpa_supplicant also does scanning; check usr.sbin/wpa/wpa_supplicant/driver_freebsd.c. Sam
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