- Use a seperate taskqueue+thread for reset tasks since iwi_ops will
block.
- Return from iwi_ops if the interface has been downed
- The firmware will fail if we are already associated
- Add myself to the copyright
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.
and make it print under debug.iwi control same as other debugging stuff.
Remove the device_printf() in iwi_ioctl() and replace with this:
/*
* wait until pending iwi_cmd() are completed, to avoid races
* that could cause problems.
*/
while (sc->flags & IWI_FLAG_BUSY)
msleep(sc, &sc->sc_mtx, 0, "iwiioctl", hz);
This at least prevents what has become an almost systematic failure for my
system, presumably due to a previous iwi_cmd() not complete yet by the
time iwi_ioctl() is called.
It has been pointed to my attention that the real problem could be
calling ieee80211_ioctl() with the lock held. If that is true,
there might still be a possibility for a race condition e.g. an
interrupt coming while the ioctl is sleeping.
Need to investigate further on what changes are required to release
the lock before calling ieee80211_ioctl
+ do not release the dma-ble region used for downloading firmware.
This should fix the problems that some people were seeing, due to
memory becoming too fragmented which prevented subsequent allocations
of a suitable contiguous region of memory;
+ document the firmware format and usage in if_iwivar.h
+ use a loop to allocate the four tx rings, instead of replicating
the body of the loop.
+ add debugging code IWI_LOCK_ASSERT() to detect missing locks.
These only do a printf, and should go away once we figure out why
the driver sometimes freezes the system due to a (yet unidentified)
race condition.
+ add a device_printf() in iwi_ioctl() in certain conditions
(see comment in the code). This helps preventing the race condition
mentioned above, and makes the system survive. This printf will
also go away once fixing this bug is completed.
+ change iwi_getfw() to return 0 on success, 1 on error, consistently
with other functions.
+ fix the argument of a sizeof() in iwi_get_firmware()
+ use le32toh() to access little-endian fields
+ simplify error handling in iwi_load_firmware() and iwi_init_locked()
The bugs fixed by this commit (the freezing one especially) are serious
enough to call for a quick MFC
MFC after: 3 days
a version that i posted earlier on the -current mailing list,
and subsequent feedback received.
The core of the change is just in sys/firmware.h and kern/subr_firmware.c,
while other files are just adaptation of the clients to the ABI change
(const-ification of some parameters and hiding of internal info,
so this is fully compatible at the binary level).
In detail:
- reduce the amount of information exported to clients in struct firmware,
and constify the pointer;
- internally, document and simplify the implementation of the various
functions, and make sure error conditions are dealt with properly.
The diffs are large, but the code is really straightforward now (i hope).
Note also that there is a subtle issue with the implementation of
firmware_register(): currently, as in the previous version, we just
store a reference to the 'imagename' argument, but we should rather
copy it because there is no guarantee that this is a static string.
I realised this while testing this code, but i prefer to fix it in
a later commit -- there is no regression with respect to the past.
Note, too, that the version in RELENG_6 has various bugs including
missing locks around the module release calls, mishandling of modules
loaded by /boot/loader, and so on, so an MFC is absolutely necessary
there. I was just postponing it until this cleanup to avoid doing
things twice.
MFC after: 1 week
Changelog towards if_iwi.c 1.26 (some changes have been committed separately
in the mean time):
- add led support
- add firmware loading on demand
- auto-restart firmware when it crashes
- serialize operations sent to the firmware to reduce firmware crashes
- add power save operation support
- remove incorrect specification of tx power control capability
- add radio on/off switch support
- improve net80211 state machine operation
- recognize and handle beacon miss
- handle authentication and association failures better
- add shared key authentication
- fix ibss mode (many changes)
- fix wme (many changes)
- correct radiotap support (many changes)
- correct bus dma setup of s/g
- correct various locking issues
- fix monitor mode
- fix scanning (many changes)
- recover from wedged scan requests
- respect active channel list
- eliminate cases where interface was marked down on error
- don't treat parity errors as fatal
- reclaim mgt frames immediately from tx queue
- correct interrupt handling, ack early (from NetBSD)
- fix short/long preamble handling
Committed with RELENG_6 compat #if's, should compile in RELENG_6. Requires
net/iwi-firmware-kmod to function.
Much work done by: sam
Tested by: many (freebsd-net), ume, luigi
MFC after: 4 weeks
o call firmware_put() early to release the firmware module
o on firmware panics or watchdog timeouts, schedule a task to reinitialize
the interface (we may sleep in iwi_init())
o discard oversized rx frames
directory by default) without requiring the user to load them by hand using
e.g iwicontrol. Get rid of the old ioctl crud.
Updated iwi-firmware port coming soon.
Obtained from: OpenBSD
in an IBSS. Store ids directly into ieee80211_node's instead of managing
our own private association table. Idea and code by Sam Leffler.
Submitted by: sam
MFC after: 5 days
o Allow association with APs that do not broadcast SSID (with hints from
Nick Hudson and Hajimu Umemoto).
o IFQ_DRV_PREPEND mbuf when h/w ring is full so it can be sent later.
o Increment if_oerrors when appropriate.
o Did some cleanup while I'm here.
MFC after: 1 day
o management of multiple tx rings (up to 4)
o setting of WME IE in association requests
Some features are still missing though, like the possibility to override
the default cwmin/cwmax/asfn values of each tx queues.
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
and on resume (reported to fix issues with ACPI)
o Add monitor mode support
o Add WPA (802.11i) support (not tested extensively though!)
o Add a device specific sysctl to control the tx antenna (default to
antenna diversity)
o Fix sensitivity setting
o Fix setting of the capinfo field when associating
o Temporarly disable 802.11a channels scanning that was causing firmware
panics with 2915ABG adapters until I find a better fix. This breaks
802.11a support.
o Temporarly switch back to software WEP until I implement hardware
encryption for AES and TKIP too.
Approved by: silby (mentor)
