src-test2/sys/dev/awi/awi.c, branch stable/7

MFC r207554:

2010-11-16T04:40:03Z

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.

o add 802.11 state machine states for DFS and client-side power save

2007-09-05T21:31:32Z

o fixup drivers to ignore new states Reviewed by: avatar (?) Approved by: re (blanket wireless)

Update 802.11 wireless support:

2007-06-11T03:36:55Z

o major overhaul of the way channels are handled: channels are now fully enumerated and uniquely identify the operating characteristics; these changes are visible to user applications which require changes o make scanning support independent of the state machine to enable background scanning and roaming o move scanning support into loadable modules based on the operating mode to enable different policies and reduce the memory footprint on systems w/ constrained resources o add background scanning in station mode (no support for adhoc/ibss mode yet) o significantly speedup sta mode scanning with a variety of techniques o add roaming support when background scanning is supported; for now we use a simple algorithm to trigger a roam: we threshold the rssi and tx rate, if either drops too low we try to roam to a new ap o add tx fragmentation support o add first cut at 802.11n support: this code works with forthcoming drivers but is incomplete; it's included now to establish a baseline for other drivers to be developed and for user applications o adjust max_linkhdr et. al. to reflect 802.11 requirements; this eliminates prepending mbufs for traffic generated locally o add support for Atheros protocol extensions; mainly the fast frames encapsulation (note this can be used with any card that can tx+rx large frames correctly) o add sta support for ap's that beacon both WPA1+2 support o change all data types from bsd-style to posix-style o propagate noise floor data from drivers to net80211 and on to user apps o correct various issues in the sta mode state machine related to handling authentication and association failures o enable the addition of sta mode power save support for drivers that need net80211 support (not in this commit) o remove old WI compatibility ioctls (wicontrol is officially dead) o change the data structures returned for get sta info and get scan results so future additions will not break user apps o fixed tx rate is now maintained internally as an ieee rate and not an index into the rate set; this needs to be extended to deal with multi-mode operation o add extended channel specifications to radiotap to enable 11n sniffing Drivers: o ath: add support for bg scanning, tx fragmentation, fast frames, dynamic turbo (lightly tested), 11n (sniffing only and needs new hal) o awi: compile tested only o ndis: lightly tested o ipw: lightly tested o iwi: add support for bg scanning (well tested but may have some rough edges) o ral, ural, rum: add suppoort for bg scanning, calibrate rssi data o wi: lightly tested This work is based on contributions by Atheros, kmacy, sephe, thompsa, mlaier, kevlo, and others. Much of the scanning work was supported by Atheros. The 11n work was supported by Marvell.

add missed calls to bpf_peers_present

2006-06-02T23:14:40Z

fix handling of the current channel (missed in previous commit)

2005-08-13T00:30:26Z

Propagate rename of IFF_OACTIVE and IFF_RUNNING to IFF_DRV_OACTIVE and

2005-08-09T10:20:02Z

IFF_DRV_RUNNING, as well as the move from ifnet.if_flags to ifnet.if_drv_flags. Device drivers are now responsible for synchronizing access to these flags, as they are in if_drv_flags. This helps prevent races between the network stack and device driver in maintaining the interface flags field. Many __FreeBSD__ and __FreeBSD_version checks maintained and continued; some less so. Reviewed by: pjd, bz MFC after: 7 days

Cleanup beacon/listen interval handling:

2005-08-08T03:30:57Z

o separate configured beacon interval from listen interval; this avoids potential use of one value for the other (e.g. setting powersavesleep to 0 clobbers the beacon interval used in hostap or ibss mode) o bounds check the beacon interval received in probe response and beacon frames and drop frames with bogus settings; not clear if we should instead clamp the value as any alteration would result in mismatched sta+ap configuration and probably be more confusing (don't want to log to the console but perhaps ok with rate limiting) o while here up max beacon interval to reflect WiFi standard Noticed by: Martin MFC after: 1 week

Modify device drivers supporting multicast addresses to lock if_addr_mtx

2005-08-03T00:18:35Z

over iteration of their multicast address lists when synchronizing the hardware address filter with the network stack-maintained list. Problem reported by: Ed Maste (emaste at phaedrus dot sandvine dot ca> MFC after: 1 week

diff reduction against p4: define IEEE80211_FIXED_RATE_NONE and use

2005-07-22T16:50:18Z

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Stop embedding struct ifnet at the top of driver softcs. Instead the

2005-06-10T16:49:24Z

struct ifnet or the layer 2 common structure it was embedded in have been replaced with a struct ifnet pointer to be filled by a call to the new function, if_alloc(). The layer 2 common structure is also allocated via if_alloc() based on the interface type. It is hung off the new struct ifnet member, if_l2com. This change removes the size of these structures from the kernel ABI and will allow us to better manage them as interfaces come and go. Other changes of note: - Struct arpcom is no longer referenced in normal interface code. Instead the Ethernet address is accessed via the IFP2ENADDR() macro. To enforce this ac_enaddr has been renamed to _ac_enaddr. - The second argument to ether_ifattach is now always the mac address from driver private storage rather than sometimes being ac_enaddr. Reviewed by: sobomax, sam