On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 03:10:23PM +0100, Cyrille Colin wrote:
> So I basically wrote a small plugin for SMS CP -following the dev
> guidelines-, and linked to GPRS-LLC and SMS-RP and it works fine.
Great!
> The questions are:
> - is there any interest in having this submitted back to the Wireshark
> source ?
Always :) Please submit it through the bug tracker
(http://bugs.wireshark.org) and mark it as a patch. Include a sample
capture file if possible for our verification.
> - if it is the case, what is the best practice (plugin, native) and
"Native" is probably easier to maintain.
> recommendations for the dissector calls - restrain the calls to be
> within the new protocol code, or rather use call_dissector() etc in
> other dissectors, which implies a small diff on other dissectors too.
It is best if you can register it in a way that it is automatically
called by the other dissectors without explicit code in the other
dissectors. You can use call_dissector() if you need to though.
Steve
