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# 303975 11-Aug-2016 gjb

Copy stable/11@r303970 to releng/11.0 as part of the 11.0-RELEASE
cycle.

Prune svn:mergeinfo from the new branch, and rename it to RC1.

Update __FreeBSD_version.

Use the quarterly branch for the default FreeBSD.conf pkg(8) repo and
the dvd1.iso packages population.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 303628 01-Aug-2016 sbruno

MFC r303322,303326,303327,303345,303413,303416,303418,303557

Update iwm(4) and iwmfw(4) to current in order to stabilize and improve
functionality.

Approved by: re (gjb)


# 302408 08-Jul-2016 gjb

Copy head@r302406 to stable/11 as part of the 11.0-RELEASE cycle.
Prune svn:mergeinfo from the new branch, as nothing has been merged
here.

Additional commits post-branch will follow.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 302101 23-Jun-2016 adrian

[iwm] Use vap->iv_myaddr instead of ic->ic_macaddr when vap != NULL.

ic_macaddr is only used for the initial mac address provided by NVM. We should
rather use vap->iv_myaddr when vap != NULL, to allow the MAC address
to be changed later with ifconfig(8).

Submitted by: Imre Vadasz <imre@vdsz.com>
Reviewed by: avos
Approved by: re (gjb)
Obtained from: DragonflyBSD git 4aee7a78275676d22d14c04177bd0c9377d91478
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6743


# 300248 19-May-2016 avos

iwm: add 'opt_wlan.h' include into source files.

Include net80211 options file, so IEEE80211_DEBUG_REFCNT option will be
handled correctly.


# 293099 03-Jan-2016 avos

iwm: reorganize if_iwmvar.h

- Change order of data in if_iwmvar.h
(like it is in other drivers: defines, data structures,
vap/node structures, softc struct and locks); use indentation.
- Fix IWM_LOCK(_sc) / IWM_UNLOCK(_sc) macro.
- Add IWM_LOCK_INIT / DESTROY(sc) + fix mtx_init() usage.
- Wrap iwm_node casts into IWM_NODE() macro.
- Drop some fields:
* wt_hwqueue from Tx radiotap header;
* macaddr[6] from iwm_vap;

Approved by: adrian
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4753


# 287197 27-Aug-2015 glebius

Replay r286410. Change KPI of how device drivers that provide wireless
connectivity interact with the net80211 stack.

Historical background: originally wireless devices created an interface,
just like Ethernet devices do. Name of an interface matched the name of
the driver that created. Later, wlan(4) layer was introduced, and the
wlanX interfaces become the actual interface, leaving original ones as
"a parent interface" of wlanX. Kernelwise, the KPI between net80211 layer
and a driver became a mix of methods that pass a pointer to struct ifnet
as identifier and methods that pass pointer to struct ieee80211com. From
user point of view, the parent interface just hangs on in the ifconfig
list, and user can't do anything useful with it.

Now, the struct ifnet goes away. The struct ieee80211com is the only
KPI between a device driver and net80211. Details:

- The struct ieee80211com is embedded into drivers softc.
- Packets are sent via new ic_transmit method, which is very much like
the previous if_transmit.
- Bringing parent up/down is done via new ic_parent method, which notifies
driver about any changes: number of wlan(4) interfaces, number of them
in promisc or allmulti state.
- Device specific ioctls (if any) are received on new ic_ioctl method.
- Packets/errors accounting are done by the stack. In certain cases, when
driver experiences errors and can not attribute them to any specific
interface, driver updates ic_oerrors or ic_ierrors counters.

Details on interface configuration with new world order:
- A sequence of commands needed to bring up wireless DOESN"T change.
- /etc/rc.conf parameters DON'T change.
- List of devices that can be used to create wlan(4) interfaces is
now provided by net.wlan.devices sysctl.

Most drivers in this change were converted by me, except of wpi(4),
that was done by Andriy Voskoboinyk. Big thanks to Kevin Lo for testing
changes to at least 8 drivers. Thanks to pluknet@, Oliver Hartmann,
Olivier Cochard, gjb@, mmoll@, op@ and lev@, who also participated in
testing.

Reviewed by: adrian
Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.


# 286475 08-Aug-2015 rpaulo

iwm: use the proper include path for iwm headers.


# 286441 08-Aug-2015 rpaulo

Import OpenBSD's iwm WiFi driver for Intel 3160/7260/7265.

There are still several bugs, but I've been using it for a while now.
Thanks to all the testers and to Adrian for his help with this
driver.

This driver isn't connected to the build yet, but it will be soon.

There's no MFC planned because the driver isn't very stable yet.

Reviewed by: adrian
Obtained from: https://github.com/rpaulo/iwm
Tested by: adrian, gjb, dumbbell (others that I forgot).
Relnotes: yes