The 11b/11g ERP and slot time update handling are two things which weren't
migrated into the per-VAP state when Sam did the initial VAP work.
That makes sense for a lot of setups where net80211 is driving radio state
and the radio only cares about the shared state.
However, as noted by a now deleted comment, the ERP and slot time updates
aren't EXACTLY correct/accurate - they only take into account the most
RECENTLY created VAP, and the state updates when one creates/destroys
VAPs isn't exactly great.
So:
* track the short slot logic per VAP;
* whenever the slot time configuration changes, just push it into a deferred
task queue update so drivers don't have to serialise it themselves;
* if a driver registers a per-VAP slot time handler then it'll just get the
per VAP one;
* .. if a driver registers a global one then the legacy behaviour is maintained -
a single slot time is calculated and pushed out.
Note that the calculated slot time is better than the existing logic - if ANY
of the VAPs require long slot then it's disabled for all VAPs rather than
whatever the last configured VAP did.
Now, this isn't entirely complete - the rest of ERP tracking around short/long
slot capable station tracking needs to be converted into per-VAP, as well
as the preamble/barker flags. Luckily those also can be done in a similar
fashion - keep per-VAP counters/flags and unify them before doing the driver
update. I'll defer that work until later.
All the existing drivers can keep doing what they're doing with the global
slot time flags as that is maintained. One driver (iwi) used the per-VAP
flags instead of the ic flags, so now that driver will work properly.
This unblocks some ath10k porting work as the firmware takes the slot time
configuration per-VAP rather than globally, and some firmware handles
STA+AP and STA+STA (on same/different channels) configurations where
the firmware will switch slot time as appropriate.
Tested:
* AR9380, STA/AP mode
* AR9880 (ath10k), STA mode
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.
No functional change intended.
* begin moving the 11n macros out of ieee80211_phy.c and
into a header so they can be used elsewhere.
* rename some of them into the IEEE80211_* namespace.
* convert HT_RC_2_MCS() to work with three-stream rates.
- Add IEEE80211_GET_SLOTTIME(ic) macro.
- Use predefined macroses to set slot time.
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4044
* Add 802.11n 2ghz and 5ghz tables, including legacy rates and up to
MCS23 rates (3x3.)
* Populate the rate code -> rate index lookup table with MCS _and_
normal rates, but _not_ the basic rate flag. Since the basic rate flag
is the same as the MCS flag, we can only use one.
* Introduce some accessor inlines that do PLCP and rate table lookup/access
and enforce that it doesn't set the basic rate bit. They're not
designed for MCS rates, so it will panic.
* Start converting drivers that use the rate table stuff to use the
accessor inlines and strip the basic flag.
* Teach AMRR about basic 11n - it's still as crap for MCS as it is
being used by iwn, so it's not a step _backwardS_.
* Convert iwn over to accept 11n MCS rates rather than 'translate' legacy
to MCS rates. It doesn't use a lookup table any longer; instead it's a
function which takes the current node (for HT parameters) and the
rate code, and returns the hardware PLCP code to use.
Tested:
* ath - it's a no-op, and it works that way
* iwn - both 11n and non-11n
o correct mapping of CCK rates to PLCP; was using nonstandard Ralink
values which just happened to also be used by Zydas (so went unnoticed)
o change ieee80211_plcp2rate api to take a phy type instead of a flag
that indicates ofdm/!ofdm
o update drivers to match (restore per-driver code to map rate->PLCP)
Reviewed by: sephe, weongyo, thompsa
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)
