[OpenWrt-Devel] Openwrt Query

[Udaya Kiran]

Yes, you need to rebuild after edit.


Regards,
Udaya

On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 11:02 PM, Preeti Sethi <ps585 at snu.edu.in> wrote:

> Sir,
>
> I am a B.Tech student currently doing research on co-existence of WiFi and
> LTE as an intern at IIT Hyderabad.
> I have installed Openwrt in *Buffalo WZR-HP-AG300H* which is used as an
> access point for this project. As an intermediate step, I need to fetch the
>  *queue status *of WiFi which will help me converge them accordingly.
> I found that the *xmit.c* file in the directory '
> openwrt/build_dir/toolchain-mips_24kc_gcc-7.3.0_musl/linux/
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k' gives the data about these queues.
> So accordingly, I ran the command cat /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/ph
> y0/ath9k/xmit which gave me data about the four queues(VO,VI,BE,BK). I
> want to use this output to get the current queue status.
>
> Now to make any change in this file, the only way I could figure out is to
> find the corresponding patch file and edit it which is followed by a
> rebuild.
> And since I am using *Atheros AR7161 *driver,  the modified ath.ko has to
> be copied after which I'll reboot the access point as per my knowledge.
>
> This whole process in itself is really tedious and doesn't seem feasible
> to extract the working logic of this file. So I request you to guide me on
> the same. Kindly tell me if there is an alternative approach to modify and
> build files in openwrt or if at all, there is an alternative way to know
> the queue status of my access point.
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Preeti Sethi
>
>
>
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