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.
- Make wlan_amrr depend on wlan, so that it can find various symbols in
wlan module if wlan is not compiled into kernel.
Approved by: sam (mentor)
Tested by: kevlo
o leave IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_HDRLEN for portability to other systems but
correct comment about radiotap headers being padded to 64-bytes
(hasn't been true for many years)
o remove reference to IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_FCS; it was never used, instead
the flags are marked with IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_F_FCS to indicate whether
or not FCS is present
Might be better to just remove IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_HDRLEN so drivers
don't bogusly pad.
MFC after: 2 weeks
station exiting power save mode prepend them to the driver's
send q instead of appending them. This insures the packets
are not misordered wrt any packets already q'd for the station.
This corrects a problem noticed when using a VoIP phone talking
to an ath card in ap mode; the misordered packets caused noise.
Submitted by: "J.R. Oldroyd" <jr@opal.com>
MFC after: 2 weeks
paper over catching an error as the case was already handled, albeit
in a somewhat surprising way (the caller received zero'd data)
Submitted by: sephe
MFC after: 2 weeks
by any code in the tree[1] and are close enough for common values
that this change is a noop
[1] ath uses one macro to calculate a value that is not used
Submitted by: sephe
MFC after: 1 week
o add channel flag to enable freq <-> ieee channel # mapping (can
go away in the future when ieee number is precomputed)
o add mapping between 900mhz freq's and channel #'s that gives a
unique channel # for each half/quarter/full width channel
o remove assumptions that half/quarter rate channels on happen in 11a
o remove assumptions that all 11g channels are full width
o ensure ic_curchan is reset on mode change so changing the channel
list (e.g. on countrycode change) doesn't leave curchan set to an
invalid channel
There is still an issue with switching rate sets; to be fixed separately.
MFC after: 1 month
the state machine clocks to INIT, node references are not reclaimed.
Add a new routine ieee80211_drain_ifq that does this and use it
instead of IF_DRAIN.
Submitted by: Sepherosa Ziehau
Obtained from: DragonFly
MFC after: 1 month
o add IEEE80211_F_JOIN flag to ieee80211_fix_rate to indicate a station
is joining a BSS; this is used to control whether or not we over-write
the basic rate bit in the calculated rate set
o fix ieee80211_fix_rate to honor IEEE80211_F_DODEL when IEEE80211_F_DONEGO
is not specified (e.g. when joining an ibss network)
o on sta join always delete unusable rates from the negotiated rate set,
this was being done only ibss networks but is also needed for 11g bss
with mixed stations
o on sta join delete unusable rates from the bss node's rate set, not the
scan table entry's rate set
o when calculating a rate set for new neighbors in an ibss caculate a
negotiated rate set so drivers are not presented with rates they should
not use
Submitted by: Sepherosa Ziehau (w/ modifications)
Obtained from: DragonFly
MFC after: 1 month
o mark 11g mode support on finding 11g or pure 11g (OFDM-only)
channels; was requiring pure 11g which caused some contortions
in drivers that manually setup their channel lists
in the Public Safety Band):
o add channel flags to identify half/quarter-rate operation
o add rate sets (need to check spec on 4Mb/s in 1/4 rate)
o add if_media definitions for new rates
o split net80211 channel setup out into ieee80211_chan_init
o fixup ieee80211_mhz2ieee and ieee80211_ieee2mhz to understand half/quarter
rate channels: note we temporarily use a nonstandard/hack numbering that
avoids overlap with 2.4G channels because we don't (yet) have enough
state to identify and/or map overlapping channel sets
o fixup ieee80211_ifmedia_init so it can be called post attach and will
recalculate the channel list and associated state; this enables changing
channel-related state like the regulatory domain after attach (will be
needed for 802.11d support too)
o add ieee80211_get_suprates to return a reference to the supported rate
set for a given channel
o add 3, 4.5, and 27 MB/s tx rates to rate <-> media conversion routines
o const-poison channel arg to ieee80211_chan2mode
required to. Note this only happens when drivers don't set them
up before calling ieee80211_ifattach so this change is backwards
compatible.
MFC after: 1 month
specific privilege names to a broad range of privileges. These may
require some future tweaking.
Sponsored by: nCircle Network Security, Inc.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Discussed on: arch@
Reviewed (at least in part) by: mlaier, jmg, pjd, bde, ceri,
Alex Lyashkov <umka at sevcity dot net>,
Skip Ford <skip dot ford at verizon dot net>,
Antoine Brodin <antoine dot brodin at laposte dot net>
m_pkthdr.ether_vlan. The presence of the M_VLANTAG flag on the mbuf
signifies the presence and validity of its content.
Drivers that support hardware VLAN tag stripping fill in the received
VLAN tag (containing both vlan and priority information) into the
ether_vtag mbuf packet header field:
m->m_pkthdr.ether_vtag = vlan_id; /* ntohs()? */
m->m_flags |= M_VLANTAG;
to mark the packet m with the specified VLAN tag.
On output the driver should check the mbuf for the M_VLANTAG flag to
see if a VLAN tag is present and valid:
if (m->m_flags & M_VLANTAG) {
... = m->m_pkthdr.ether_vtag; /* htons()? */
... pass tag to hardware ...
}
VLAN tags are stored in host byte order. Byte swapping may be necessary.
(Note: This driver conversion was mechanic and did not add or remove any
byte swapping in the drivers.)
Remove zone_mtag_vlan UMA zone and MTAG_VLAN definition. No more tag
memory allocation have to be done.
Reviewed by: thompsa, yar
Sponsored by: TCP/IP Optimization Fundraise 2005
o change rssi to be signed in ieee80211_nodestats
o add noise floor in ieee80211_nodestats (use an implicit hole to
preserve layout); return it as zero until we can update the api's
so the driver can provide noise floor data
o add a bandaid so IEEE80211_IOC_STA_STATS works for sta mode; when
all nodes are in the station table this will no longer be needed
o fix braino in IEEE80211_IOC_STA_INFO implementation; was supposed
to take a mac address and return info for that sta or all stations
if ff:ff:ff:ff:ff was supplied--but somehow this didn't get implemented;
implement the intended semantics and leave a compat shim at the old
ioctl number for the previous api
Reviewed by: mlaier
MFC after: 3 weeks
o add some missing stats to the global stat structure
o move accounting work for data frame rx into ieee80211_deliver_data
o add per-sta stats for rx ucast/mcast frames
o set rcvif in ieee80211_deliver_data so callers don't need to
MFC after: 2 weeks
