Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Fields with symbolic values defined in another file

From: Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 09:23:06 -0400
Is it enough to create a packet-scsi-osd.h file and expose the
necessary values there for packet-scsi.c to include?

Evan

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 5:44 AM, Javier Godoy <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In the SCSI dissector, I would like to add support for the OSD attribute
> identification sense data descriptor.
> The descriptor is a list of attribute page and attribute number fields.
>
> The code would be added to dissect_scsi_descriptor_snsinfo in packet-scsi.c
> because the SCSI dissector does not forward sense data to the sub-dissector.
> My issue is that symbolic names for attribute pages and attribute numbers
> are defined in packet-scsi-osd.c (page names are just a string_value array,
> and attribute number names are given by function osd_lookup_attribute).
>
> What approach do you recommend for including the attribute names in the
> fields of the sense data descriptor?
>
> For reference, in packet-scsi-osd.c the fields that represent page/number
> values are defined as
> { &hf_scsi_osd_attributes_page,
>   {"Attributes Page", "scsi_osd.attributes.page", FT_UINT32, BASE_HEX,
>      VALS(attributes_page_vals), 0, NULL, HFILL}},
> { &hf_scsi_osd_attribute_number,
>   {"Attribute Number", "scsi_osd.attribute.number", FT_UINT32, BASE_HEX,
>     NULL, 0, NULL, HFILL}},
>
> And they are dissected as:
>   const attribute_page_numbers_t *apn;
>   proto_item *item;
>   item=proto_tree_add_item(tt, hf_scsi_osd_attribute_number, tvb, offset, 4,
> ENC_BIG_ENDIAN);
>   apn= osd_lookup_attribute(page,number);
>   if (!apn) {
>   expert_add_info(pinfo, item, &ei_osd_attr_unknown);
>   proto_item_append_text(item, " (Unknown)");
>   } else {
>   proto_item_append_text(item, " (%s)", apn->name);
>   }
>
>
> Best Regards
>
> Javier
>
>
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