calling ath_update_txpow

[Brooks Davis]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 12:05:46PM -0500, Sam Pierson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have been looking at this function in if_ath.c:
> 
> static void
> ath_update_txpow(struct ath_softc *sc)
> 
> Is there an example somewhere of using this function in
> a user-space application to control the signal strength?
> Up until this point I've just been stringing together system()
> calls saying "ifconfig ath0 txpower" and it's very dirty.  I'd like
> to be able to actually use the device driver and not ifconfig.

ath_update_txpow is a kernel function and can not be called from an
application.  If you want to avoid calling ifconfig by hand, you need to
do what it does and use the IOCTL interface to the 802.11 layer.

-- Brooks

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