Glossary for all words

Hey guys,

first of all I want to tell you all my commendation for your fine work.= =20
Right now I'm reading your source code to understand your code. In the=20 future I'm interested in extending (may be I would have to hack somehow= )=20
your code. Currently I'm most familiar with upper level usage of WLAN -= =20
especially Ad Hoc mode. Now I got a possibility to dig into the linux=20 kernel and into the maclayer of WLAN for the next years / month during=20 my phd thesis. During reading I got some problems understanding some of= =20
the abbreviations in your code.
Thereby I was thinking a glossary for your framework could be helpful=20 for future newbies.

Would you like to help me withit?

Abbrev: English / German
If: Interface / Schnittstelle
Tx: Transmitter / Sender
Rx: Receiver / Empf=E4nger
STA: State / Status
skb: ?
wiphy: Wireless physical
ops:
vif: ? virtual interface
hw: Hardware?
rtnl:
pid: Process id

When I will have understood the code, I'm interested in sending Beacon=20 frames 'manually' and during this step reconfigure the Beacon data=20 regularly...

=46or now all the Best
Sebastian

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A few corrections:

k. Right now I'm reading your source code to understand your code. In t= he future I'm interested in extending (may be I would have to hack some= how) your code. Currently I'm most familiar with upper level usage of W= LAN - especially Ad Hoc mode. Now I got a possibility to dig into the l= inux kernel and into the maclayer of WLAN for the next years / month du= ring my phd thesis. During reading I got some problems understanding so= me of the abbreviations in your code.

for future newbies.

Correct.

It can also be just "Transmit".

Again, can be "Receive.

No. STA=3DStation. AP=3DAccess point, IBSS=3DAd-hoc, and finally MON an= d
MNTR stand for Monitor. These are interface types.

That's something I can't decipher, either...

Not exactly, it's Wireless PHY. A PHY is a physical-layer controller.

I don't know this either, maybe operations or output sequence...

Exactly.

Yes.

Hmm... maybe real-time netlink?

No, proportional-integral-derivative.

n frames 'manually' and during this step reconfigure the Beacon data re= gularly...

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ork. Right now I'm reading your source code to understand your code. In=
the future I'm interested in extending (may be I would have to hack so=
mehow) your code. Currently I'm most familiar with upper level usage of=
WLAN - especially Ad Hoc mode. Now I got a possibility to dig into the= linux kernel and into the maclayer of WLAN for the next years / month =
during my phd thesis. During reading I got some problems understanding = some of the abbreviations in your code.

ul for future newbies.

and

Socket buffer, according to
=EF=BB=BFhttp://vger.kernel.org/~davem/skb.html

operations

routing netlink, according to net/core/rtnetlink.c

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_controller
It's the default rate control algorithm in mac80211

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Hey Stefanik, Hi Pavel thank you for this unbelievable fast reaction. This would then be the new state ( I decided to skip German for the beginning to keep everything inline) :

Abbrev: English

If: Interface Tx: Transmitter|Transmit Rx: Receiver|Receive skb: Socket buffer (http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/skb.html)

ops: operations
pid: proportional-integral-derivative (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_controller- default rate control algorithm in mac80211)
wiPhy: Wireless PHY. A PHY is a physical-layer controller
hw: Hardware
vif: virtual interface
rtnl: routing netlink (net/core/rtnetlink.c)

[Interface types]:
STA: Station
AP: Access point
IBSS: Ad-hoc
MON|MNTR: Monitor

I will ask for more input in the next days :)
Have a nice time till then
Sebastian

Maybe you want to make yourself an account at the wiki at
http://wireless.kernel.org and start your page there?

Good idea Holger,

Is it fine for you, if I extend the given Glossary in there? Sebastian

Let's actually not do that at all. All of the terms you have tried to collect
* can be decoded by looking at the code
* or by trying to understand the code
* or by looking at other code like the normal networking stack
* or by looking at the 802.11 specs
* are normal abbreviations used everywhere in the kernel

johannes