This was inherited from iwlwifi, which drives devices supported by both
iwn(4) and iwm(4) in FreeBSD. In iwm(4) _mvm is meaningless, so remove
it. OpenBSD made the same change a long time ago. No functional change
intended.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
* This avoids firmware resets in all the cases in iwm_newstate(). Instead
iwm_bring_down_firmware() is called, which tears down all the STA
connection state, according to the sc->sc_firmware_state value.
* Improve the behaviour of the LED blinking a bit, so it only blinks when
there really is a wireless scan going on.
* Print the newstate arg in debug output of iwm_newstate(), to help in
debugging.
This is inspired by the firmware state maintaining change in OpenBSD's iwm,
by stsp@openbsd.org (OpenBSD Git 0ddb056fb7370664b1d4b84392697cb17d1a414a).
Submitted by: Augustin Cavalier <waddlesplash@gmail.com> (Haiku)
Obtained from: DragonFlyBSD (8a41b10ac639d0609878696808387a6799d39b57)
* Inspired by iwn(4) and Linux iwlwifi.
* Read wme parameters into a buffer within struct iwm_vap in
iwm_wme_update().
* If we aren't associated yet, the new settings will soon be sent
by iwm_mvm_mac_ctxt_changed() during association.
* If we are already associated, explicitly call iwm_mvm_mac_ctxt_changed()
from iwm_wme_update() to send the new settings to the firmware.
* Change iwm_mvm_ac_to_tx_fifo mapping, to fit the freebsd net80211
WME stream class numbering, instead of Linux's enum ieee80211_ac_numbers.
Obtained from: dragonflybsd.git b8bd6cd746d1f45e616ccfcbeed06dfe452a1108
* Store macid and color values in struct iwm_vap, to avoid hardcoded
constants a bit.
* Add iwm_mvm_binding_remove_vif() function (will be used in disconnecting
from an access point without resetting the whole device).
* Not adding code from Linux iwlwifi yet, to handle one PHY context to
be bound to several VAPs/virtual-interfaces, it's definitely not needed
in the near future.
Obtained from: dragonflybsd.git f16ef74977e51e1bfc7a625dd18b98b02158e0e5
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
- 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
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.
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
