History log of /freebsd-current/sys/dev/malo/if_malo.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# 1c6dd33d 03-Nov-2023 Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org>

Revert "Widen EPOCH(9) usage in PCI WLAN drivers."

This reverts commit b65f813c1ab99448278961c5ca80dc422b1eae29.
As a side effect this also seems to fix wtap which seems to have
lost the epoch over the input path in between.

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 3 days


# fdafd315 24-Nov-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

sys: Automated cleanup of cdefs and other formatting

Apply the following automated changes to try to eliminate
no-longer-needed sys/cdefs.h includes as well as now-empty
blank lines in a row.

Remove /^#if.*\n#endif.*\n#include\s+<sys/cdefs.h>.*\n/
Remove /\n+#include\s+<sys/cdefs.h>.*\n+#if.*\n#endif.*\n+/
Remove /\n+#if.*\n#endif.*\n+/
Remove /^#if.*\n#endif.*\n/
Remove /\n+#include\s+<sys/cdefs.h>\n#include\s+<sys/types.h>/
Remove /\n+#include\s+<sys/cdefs.h>\n#include\s+<sys/param.h>/
Remove /\n+#include\s+<sys/cdefs.h>\n#include\s+<sys/capsicum.h>/

Sponsored by: Netflix


# 685dc743 16-Aug-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

sys: Remove $FreeBSD$: one-line .c pattern

Remove /^[\s*]*__FBSDID\("\$FreeBSD\$"\);?\s*\n/


# 4d846d26 10-May-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

spdx: The BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier is obsolete, drop -FreeBSD

The SPDX folks have obsoleted the BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier. Catch
up to that fact and revert to their recommended match of BSD-2-Clause.

Discussed with: pfg
MFC After: 3 days
Sponsored by: Netflix


# ec22a3a2 19-Aug-2022 Justin Hibbits <jhibbits@FreeBSD.org>

DrvAPI: Trivial mechanical conversions for various drivers

Mechanically convert the following drivers, with trivial changes:
* ipw(4)
* igc(4)
* enetc(4)
* malo(4)
* nfe(4)
* bxe(4)
* awg(4)
* otus(4)
* rtwn(4)
* bnxt(4)
* ath(4)

Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.


# 21863401 19-Jul-2022 Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>

Suppress unused variable warning in if_malo.c

With clang 15, the following -Werror warning is produced:

sys/dev/malo/if_malo.c:1573:8: error: variable 'ix' set but not used [-Werror,-Wunused-but-set-variable]
u_int ix;
^

Here, 'ix' is a variable that is only used when MALO_DEBUG is defined.
Mark the variable as potentially unused, to suppress the warning.

MFC after: 3 days


# fba6f8ef 05-Apr-2022 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

malo: Remove write only variables, but leave hardware reads in place

Sponsored by: Netflix


# fe5ebb23 24-Sep-2020 Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org>

Provide MS() and SM() macros for 80211 and wireless drivers.

We have (two versions) of MS() and SM() macros which we use throughout
the wireless code. Change all but three places (ath_hal, rtwn, and rsu)
to the newly provided _IEEE80211_MASKSHIFT() and _IEEE80211_SHIFTMASK()
macros. Also change one internal case using both _S and _M instead of
just _S away from _M (one of the reasons rtwn and rsu were not changed).

This was done semi-mechanically. No functional changes intended.

Requested by: gnn (D26091)
Reviewed by: adrian (pre line wrap)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Rubicon Communications, LLC (d/b/a "Netgate")
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26539


# 7029da5c 26-Feb-2020 Pawel Biernacki <kaktus@FreeBSD.org>

Mark more nodes as CTLFLAG_MPSAFE or CTLFLAG_NEEDGIANT (17 of many)

r357614 added CTLFLAG_NEEDGIANT to make it easier to find nodes that are
still not MPSAFE (or already are but aren’t properly marked).
Use it in preparation for a general review of all nodes.

This is non-functional change that adds annotations to SYSCTL_NODE and
SYSCTL_PROC nodes using one of the soon-to-be-required flags.

Mark all obvious cases as MPSAFE. All entries that haven't been marked
as MPSAFE before are by default marked as NEEDGIANT

Approved by: kib (mentor, blanket)
Commented by: kib, gallatin, melifaro
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23718


# 6c3e93cb 11-Feb-2020 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>

Use NET_TASK_INIT() and NET_GROUPTASK_INIT() for drivers that process
incoming packets in taskqueue context.

Reviewed by: hselasky
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23518


# b65f813c 30-Jan-2020 Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@FreeBSD.org>

Widen EPOCH(9) usage in PCI WLAN drivers.

Make sure all occurrences of ieee80211_input_xxx() in sys/dev are
covered by a network epoch section. Do not depend on the interrupt
handler nor any taskqueues being in a network epoch section.

This patch should unbreak the PCI WLAN drivers after r357004.

Pointy hat: glebius@
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies


# 9602d600 21-Oct-2019 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>

Convert to if_foreach_llmaddr() KPI.


# f3f08e16 10-Feb-2019 Andriy Voskoboinyk <avos@FreeBSD.org>

net80211(4): hide casts for 'i_seq' field offset calculation inside
ieee80211_getqos() and reuse it in various places.

Checked with RTL8188EE, HOSTAP mode + RTL8188CUS, STA mode.

MFC after: 2 weeks


# d7c5a620 18-May-2018 Matt Macy <mmacy@FreeBSD.org>

ifnet: Replace if_addr_lock rwlock with epoch + mutex

Run on LLNW canaries and tested by pho@

gallatin:
Using a 14-core, 28-HTT single socket E5-2697 v3 with a 40GbE MLX5
based ConnectX 4-LX NIC, I see an almost 12% improvement in received
packet rate, and a larger improvement in bytes delivered all the way
to userspace.

When the host receiving 64 streams of netperf -H $DUT -t UDP_STREAM -- -m 1,
I see, using nstat -I mce0 1 before the patch:

InMpps OMpps InGbs OGbs err TCP Est %CPU syscalls csw irq GBfree
4.98 0.00 4.42 0.00 4235592 33 83.80 4720653 2149771 1235 247.32
4.73 0.00 4.20 0.00 4025260 33 82.99 4724900 2139833 1204 247.32
4.72 0.00 4.20 0.00 4035252 33 82.14 4719162 2132023 1264 247.32
4.71 0.00 4.21 0.00 4073206 33 83.68 4744973 2123317 1347 247.32
4.72 0.00 4.21 0.00 4061118 33 80.82 4713615 2188091 1490 247.32
4.72 0.00 4.21 0.00 4051675 33 85.29 4727399 2109011 1205 247.32
4.73 0.00 4.21 0.00 4039056 33 84.65 4724735 2102603 1053 247.32

After the patch

InMpps OMpps InGbs OGbs err TCP Est %CPU syscalls csw irq GBfree
5.43 0.00 4.20 0.00 3313143 33 84.96 5434214 1900162 2656 245.51
5.43 0.00 4.20 0.00 3308527 33 85.24 5439695 1809382 2521 245.51
5.42 0.00 4.19 0.00 3316778 33 87.54 5416028 1805835 2256 245.51
5.42 0.00 4.19 0.00 3317673 33 90.44 5426044 1763056 2332 245.51
5.42 0.00 4.19 0.00 3314839 33 88.11 5435732 1792218 2499 245.52
5.44 0.00 4.19 0.00 3293228 33 91.84 5426301 1668597 2121 245.52

Similarly, netperf reports 230Mb/s before the patch, and 270Mb/s after the patch

Reviewed by: gallatin
Sponsored by: Limelight Networks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15366


# 718cf2cc 27-Nov-2017 Pedro F. Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>

sys/dev: further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags.

Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.

The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.


# a061fea6 29-Apr-2016 Andriy Voskoboinyk <avos@FreeBSD.org>

net80211 + drivers: hide size of 'bands' array behind a macro.

Auto-replace 'howmany(IEEE80211_MODE_MAX, 8)' with 'IEEE80211_MODE_BYTES'.
No functional changes.


# 6459bd28 20-Apr-2016 Andriy Voskoboinyk <avos@FreeBSD.org>

net80211: enable promiscuous mode state change for non-monitor/ahdemo modes

- Allow to enable/disable promiscuous mode when:
* interface is not a member of bridge, or;
* request was issued by user (ifconfig wlan0 promisc), or;
* interface is in MONITOR or AHDEMO mode.
- Drop local workarounds in mwl(4) and malo(4).

Tested with:
- Intel 3945BG, STA mode;
- RTL8188CUS, MONITOR mode;

Reviewed by: adrian
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5472


# cbc4d2db 01-Mar-2016 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

Remove taskqueue_enqueue_fast().

taskqueue_enqueue() was changed to support both fast and non-fast
taskqueues 10 years ago in r154167. It has been a compat shim ever
since. It's time for the compat shim to go.

Submitted by: Howard Su <howard0su@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: sephe
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5131


# 8ec07310 01-Feb-2016 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>

These files were getting sys/malloc.h and vm/uma.h with header pollution
via sys/mbuf.h


# 0046e186 07-Jan-2016 Andriy Voskoboinyk <avos@FreeBSD.org>

net80211 drivers: fix ieee80211_init_channels() usage

Fix out-of-bounds read (all) / write (11n capable) for drivers
that are using ieee80211_init_channels() to initialize channel list.

Tested with:
* RTL8188EU, STA mode.
* RTL8188CUS, STA mode.
* WUSB54GC, HOSTAP mode.

Approved by: adrian (mentor)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4818


# d957a93a 11-Oct-2015 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

net80211: move ieee80211_free_node() call on error from ic_raw_xmit() to ieee80211_raw_output().

This doesn't free the mbuf upon error; the driver ic_raw_xmit method is still
doing that.

Submitted by: <s3erios@gmail.com>
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3774


# d6166def 21-Sep-2015 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

net80211 & wireless drivers: remove duplicate defines (noop)

* IEEE80211_DIR_DSTODS(wh) -> IEEE80211_IS_DSTODS(wh).
* N(a) -> nitems(a).
* Remove LE_READ_2(p)/LE_READ_4(p) definitions (and include ieee80211_input.h instead).
* <drvname>_TXOP_TO_US(txop) -> IEEE80211_TXOP_TO_US(txop).
* Put IEEE80211_RV(v) into ieee80211_proto.h and remove local RV(v) definitions.

Submitted by: Andriy Voskoboinyk <s3erios@gmail.com>
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3705


# 7a79cebf 27-Aug-2015 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>

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.


# ba2c1fbc 07-Aug-2015 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

Revert the wifi ifnet changes until things are more baked and tested.

* 286410
* 286413
* 286416

The initial commit broke a variety of debug and features that aren't
in the GENERIC kernels but are enabled in other platforms.


# 79d2c5e8 07-Aug-2015 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>

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 Olivier Cochard, gjb@, mmoll@,
op@ and lev@, who also participated in testing. Details here:

https://wiki.freebsd.org/projects/ifnet/net80211

Still, drivers: ndis, wtap, mwl, ipw, bwn, wi, upgt, uath were not
tested. Changes to mwl, ipw, bwn, wi, upgt are trivial and chances
of problems are low. The wtap wasn't compilable even before this change.
But the ndis driver is complex, and it is likely to be broken with this
commit. Help with testing and debugging it is appreciated.

Differential Revision: D2655, D2740
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
Sponsored by: Netflix


# 272f6ade 25-May-2015 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>

Change three methods in struct ieee80211com, namely ic_updateslot,
ic_update_mcast and ic_update_promisc, to pass pointer to the ieee80211com,
not to the ifnet.

Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.


# 59686fe9 25-May-2015 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>

Set ic_softc in all 802.11 drivers. Not required right now, but will be
used quite soon.

Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.


# c8550c02 25-May-2015 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>

Make net80211 drivers supply their device name to the net80211 layer, so
that the latter doesn't need to go through struct ifnet to get their name.

Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.


# 2706e872 10-Feb-2015 Marius Strobl <marius@FreeBSD.org>

Fix compilation with GCC in the PAE case.

MFC after: 3 days


# c8dfaf38 18-Sep-2014 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>

Mechanically convert to if_inc_counter().


# af3b2549 27-Jun-2014 Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@FreeBSD.org>

Pull in r267961 and r267973 again. Fix for issues reported will follow.


# 37a107a4 27-Jun-2014 Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>

Revert r267961, r267973:

These changes prevent sysctl(8) from returning proper output,
such as:

1) no output from sysctl(8)
2) erroneously returning ENOMEM with tools like truss(1)
or uname(1)
truss: can not get etype: Cannot allocate memory


# 3da1cf1e 27-Jun-2014 Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@FreeBSD.org>

Extend the meaning of the CTLFLAG_TUN flag to automatically check if
there is an environment variable which shall initialize the SYSCTL
during early boot. This works for all SYSCTL types both statically and
dynamically created ones, except for the SYSCTL NODE type and SYSCTLs
which belong to VNETs. A new flag, CTLFLAG_NOFETCH, has been added to
be used in the case a tunable sysctl has a custom initialisation
function allowing the sysctl to still be marked as a tunable. The
kernel SYSCTL API is mostly the same, with a few exceptions for some
special operations like iterating childrens of a static/extern SYSCTL
node. This operation should probably be made into a factored out
common macro, hence some device drivers use this. The reason for
changing the SYSCTL API was the need for a SYSCTL parent OID pointer
and not only the SYSCTL parent OID list pointer in order to quickly
generate the sysctl path. The motivation behind this patch is to avoid
parameter loading cludges inside the OFED driver subsystem. Instead of
adding special code to the OFED driver subsystem to post-load tunables
into dynamically created sysctls, we generalize this in the kernel.

Other changes:
- Corrected a possibly incorrect sysctl name from "hw.cbb.intr_mask"
to "hw.pcic.intr_mask".
- Removed redundant TUNABLE statements throughout the kernel.
- Some minor code rewrites in connection to removing not needed
TUNABLE statements.
- Added a missing SYSCTL_DECL().
- Wrapped two very long lines.
- Avoid malloc()/free() inside sysctl string handling, in case it is
called to initialize a sysctl from a tunable, hence malloc()/free() is
not ready when sysctls from the sysctl dataset are registered.
- Bumped FreeBSD version to indicate SYSCTL API change.

MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies


# f07894db 10-Jun-2014 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

Don't destroy bus_dma maps created by bus_dmamem_alloc(). In some cases,
don't create a map before calling bus_dmamem_alloc() (such maps were
leaked). It is believed that the extra destroy of the map was generally
harmless since bus_dmamem_alloc() often uses special maps for which
bus_dmamap_destroy() is a no-op (e.g. on x86).

Reviewed by: scottl


# 5945b5f5 08-Jan-2014 Kevin Lo <kevlo@FreeBSD.org>

Rename definition of IEEE80211_FC1_WEP to IEEE80211_FC1_PROTECTED.

The origin of WEP comes from IEEE Std 802.11-1997 where it defines
whether the frame body of MAC frame has been encrypted using WEP
algorithm or not.
IEEE Std. 802.11-2007 changes WEP to Protected Frame, indicates
whether the frame is protected by a cryptographic encapsulation
algorithm.

Reviewed by: adrian, rpaulo


# 76039bc8 26-Oct-2013 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>

The r48589 promised to remove implicit inclusion of if_var.h soon. Prepare
to this event, adding if_var.h to files that do need it. Also, include
all includes that now are included due to implicit pollution via if_var.h

Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.


# c6499ecc 04-Dec-2012 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>

Mechanically substitute flags from historic mbuf allocator with
malloc(9) flags in sys/dev.


# fcd9500f 17-Dec-2011 Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@FreeBSD.org>

Fix some net80211 enum nits:
- ic_vap_create() uses an ieee80211_opmode argument
- ieee80211_rate2media() takes an ieee80211_phymode argument
- ieee80211_plcp2rate() takes an ieee80211_phytype argument
- cast to enum ieee80211_protmode and ieee80211_roamingmode to silence
compiler warnings

Submitted by: arundel@


# d745c852 06-Nov-2011 Ed Schouten <ed@FreeBSD.org>

Mark MALLOC_DEFINEs static that have no corresponding MALLOC_DECLAREs.

This means that their use is restricted to a single C file.


# a7d5f7eb 19-Oct-2010 Jamie Gritton <jamie@FreeBSD.org>

A new jail(8) with a configuration file, to replace the work currently done
by /etc/rc.d/jail.


# e50d35e6 03-May-2010 Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>

Add new tunable 'net.link.ifqmaxlen' to set default send interface
queue length. The default value for this parameter is 50, which is
quite low for many of today's uses and the only way to modify this
parameter right now is to edit if_var.h file. Also add read-only
sysctl with the same name, so that it's possible to retrieve the
current value.

MFC after: 1 month


# 68d9da91 29-Mar-2010 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

Cast bus_space_t to a intmax_t and use %j to print it instead of
assuming it is size_t sized and using %z.


# 7733cf8f 11-Feb-2010 Matt Jacob <mjacob@FreeBSD.org>

MFC a number of changes from head for ISP (203478,203463,203444,202418,201758,
201408,201325,200089,198822,197373,197372,197214,196162). Since one of those
changes was a semicolon cleanup from somebody else, this touches a lot more.


# c2ede4b3 07-Jan-2010 Martin Blapp <mbr@FreeBSD.org>

Remove extraneous semicolons, no functional changes.

Submitted by: Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch>
MFC after: 1 week


# 7cf545d0 19-Nov-2009 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

- Add a private timer to drive the transmit watchdog instead of using
if_watchdog and if_timer.
- Fix some issues in detach for sn(4), ste(4), and ti(4). Primarily this
means calling ether_ifdetach() before anything else.


# eb956cd0 26-Jun-2009 Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>

Use if_maddr_rlock()/if_maddr_runlock() rather than IF_ADDR_LOCK()/
IF_ADDR_UNLOCK() across network device drivers when accessing the
per-interface multicast address list, if_multiaddrs. This will
allow us to change the locking strategy without affecting our driver
programming interface or binary interface.

For two wireless drivers, remove unnecessary locking, since they
don't actually access the multicast address list.

Approved by: re (kib)
MFC after: 6 weeks


# 5463c4a4 20-May-2009 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

Overhaul monitor mode handling:
o replace DLT_IEEE802_11 support in net80211 with DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO
and remove explicit bpf support from wireless drivers; drivers now
use ieee80211_radiotap_attach to setup shared data structures that
hold the radiotap header for each packet tx/rx
o remove rx timestamp from the rx path; it was used only by the tdma support
for debugging and was mostly useless due to it being 32-bits and mostly
unavailable
o track DLT_IEEE80211_RADIO bpf attachments and maintain per-vap and
per-com state when there are active taps
o track the number of monitor mode vaps
o use bpf tap and monitor mode vap state to decide when to collect radiotap
state and dispatch frames; drivers no longer explicitly directly check
bpf state or use bpf calls to tap frames
o handle radiotap state updates on channel change in net80211; drivers
should not do this (unless they bypass net80211 which is almost always
a mistake)
o update various drivers to be more consistent/correct in handling radiotap
o update ral to include TSF in radiotap'd frames
o add promisc mode callback to wi

Reviewed by: cbzimmer, rpaulo, thompsa


# 339ccfb3 30-Mar-2009 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

Hoist 802.11 encapsulation up into net80211:
o call ieee80211_encap in ieee80211_start so frames passed down to drivers
are already encapsulated
o remove ieee80211_encap calls in drivers
o fixup wi so it recreates the 802.3 head it requires from the 802.11
header contents
o move fast-frame aggregation from ath to net80211 (conditional on
IEEE80211_SUPPORT_SUPERG):
- aggregation is now done in ieee80211_start; it is enabled when the
packets/sec exceeds ieee80211_ffppsmin (net.wlan.ffppsmin) and frames
are held on a staging queue according to ieee80211_ffagemax
(net.wlan.ffagemax) to wait for a frame to combine with
- drivers must call back to age/flush the staging queue (ath does this
on tx done, at swba, and on rx according to the state of the tx queues
and/or the contents of the staging queue)
- remove fast-frame-related data structures from ath
- add ieee80211_ff_node_init and ieee80211_ff_node_cleanup to handle
per-node fast-frames state (we reuse 11n tx ampdu state)
o change ieee80211_encap calling convention to include an explicit vap
so frames coming through a WDS vap are recognized w/o setting M_WDS

With these changes any device able to tx/rx 3Kbyte+ frames can use fast-frames.

Reviewed by: thompsa, rpaulo, avatar, imp, sephe


# 136694a4 30-Mar-2009 Weongyo Jeong <weongyo@FreeBSD.org>

when it failed to inform rx/tx dma setup it should clean up allocated
dma-related buffers and tags.

MFC after: 3 days


# 29aca940 29-Mar-2009 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

Eliminate ic_myaddr so changing the mac address of a device works correctly:
o remove ic_myaddr from ieee80211com
o change ieee80211_ifattach to take the mac address of the physical device
and use that to setup the lladdr.
o replace all references to ic_myaddr in drivers by IF_LLADDR
o related cleanups (e.g. kill dead code)

PR: kern/133178
Reviewed by: thompsa, rpaulo


# d7f03759 19-Oct-2008 Ulf Lilleengen <lulf@FreeBSD.org>

- Import the HEAD csup code which is the basis for the cvsmode work.


# c43feede 11-May-2008 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

Minor cleanup of vap create work:
o add IEEE80211_C_STA capability to indicate sta mode is supported
(was previously assumed) and mark drivers as capable
o add ieee80211_opcap array to map an opmode to the equivalent capability bit
o move IEEE80211_C_OPMODE definition to where capabilities are defined so it's
clear it should be kept in sync (on future additions)
o check device capabilities in clone create before trying to create a vap;
this makes driver checks unneeded
o make error codes return on failed clone request unique
o temporarily add console printfs on clone request failures to aid in
debugging; these will move under DIAGNOSTIC or similar before release


# 6935a973 20-Apr-2008 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

fix build


# b032f27c 20-Apr-2008 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

Multi-bss (aka vap) support for 802.11 devices.

Note this includes changes to all drivers and moves some device firmware
loading to use firmware(9) and a separate module (e.g. ral). Also there
no longer are separate wlan_scan* modules; this functionality is now
bundled into the wlan module.

Supported by: Hobnob and Marvell
Reviewed by: many
Obtained from: Atheros (some bits)


# 3c7e78d3 25-Mar-2008 Weongyo Jeong <weongyo@FreeBSD.org>

Add support for Marvell Libertas 88W8335 based PCI network adapters.

Reviewed by: sam, many wireless people
Approved by: thompsa (mentor)