关于ath5k网卡驱动中beacon的发送过程（特别是timestamp字段）

                                            ath5k网卡驱动中beacon

工作模式：ad-hoc    内核版本：3.10.38

  最近在做一个项目，要发送一个ta指针里面有一个时间戳的问题，所以研究了beacon在ath5k中的生成和发送。这个发送过程主要是网卡工作在adhoc的模式下。由于要做到时间同步，所以beacon中的timestamp字段的值表示的时间应该是这个beacon从硬件哪里发出去的时间，这样对方收到了才能够根据这个同步。而这个时间戳在这个网卡驱动下是由硬件打印上去。

在__ieee80211_sta_join_ibss()函数（内核3.10.38中mac802111文件中ibss.c中）中

            主要通过对sdata->u.ibss->presp进行赋值，通过head 指针指向mac80211制定的beacon（但是这里的timestamp取值为0，这个值主要是在硬件哪里修改，随后会看到），但是这个函数中主要通过sdata->vif.bss_conf中进行配置来让网卡按照我们的配置发送beacon。最后通过函数ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify来通知网卡做相应的改动。

struct beacon_data *presp

struct ieee80211_if_ibss *ifibss = &sdata->u.ibss;
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<pre name="code" class="cpp"><pre name="code" class="html">presp = kzalloc(sizeof(*presp) + frame_len, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!presp)
      return;
presp->head = (void *)(presp + 1);
mgmt = (void *) presp->head;
mgmt->frame_control = cpu_to_le16(IEEE80211_FTYPE_MGMT |
                                          IEEE80211_STYPE_PROBE_RESP);
eth_broadcast_addr(mgmt->da);
memset(mgmt->da,0x01,ETH_ALEN);
memcpy(mgmt->sa, sdata->vif.addr, ETH_ALEN);
memcpy(mgmt->sa, sdata->vif.addr, ETH_ALEN);
memcpy(mgmt->bssid, ifibss->bssid, ETH_ALEN);
mgmt->u.beacon.beacon_int = cpu_to_le16(beacon_int);
mgmt->u.beacon.timestamp = cpu_to_le64(tsf);
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rcu_assign_pointer(ifibss->presp, presp);
<pre name="code" class="html">sdata->vif.bss_conf.enable_beacon = true;
sdata->vif.bss_conf.beacon_int = beacon_int;
sdata->vif.bss_conf.basic_rates = basic_rates;
sdata->vif.bss_conf.ssid_len = ifibss->ssid_len;
memcpy(sdata->vif.bss_conf.ssid, ifibss->ssid, ifibss->ssid_len);
bss_change = BSS_CHANGED_BEACON_INT;
bss_change |= ieee80211_reset_erp_info(sdata);
bss_change |= BSS_CHANGED_BSSID;
bss_change |= BSS_CHANGED_BEACON;
bss_change |= BSS_CHANGED_BEACON_ENABLED;
bss_change |= BSS_CHANGED_BASIC_RATES;
bss_change |= BSS_CHANGED_HT;
bss_change |= BSS_CHANGED_IBSS;
bss_change |= BSS_CHANGED_SSID;
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ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify(sdata, bss_change);

通过查看，容易找到ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify（）这个函数最后调用的是ath5k中的ath5k_bss_info_changed()这个函数。

        struct ath5k_vif *avf = (void *)vif->drv_priv;
        struct ath5k_hw *ah = hw->priv;
        struct ath_common *common