o change ieee80211_parse_htcap and ieee80211_parse_htinfo to save only
internal state obtained from the ie's; no dynamic state such as
ni_chw is altered
o add ieee80211_ht_updateparams to parse ht cap+info ie's and update
dynamic node state
o change ieee80211_ht_node_init to not take an htcap ie that is parsed;
instead have the caller make a separate call as one caller wants to
parse the ie while another wants to parse both cap+info ie's and
update state so can better do this with ieee80211_ht_updateparams
These changes fix sta mode state handling where the node's channel
width was shifted to ht20/ht40 prematurely.
don't duplicate this. These are setup according to the role of the
node--the bss node for ap and adhoc modes need to use parameters
that are the least common denomimator of all nodes in the bss;
otherwise we are setting up params for a station joining a bss and
we select those according to the capabilities of the station.
This stuff needs more work as we do extra work due to having setup
in common code paths shared by nodes using both roles.
o don't use the key index to identify when the driver has been
asked to allocate a key slot, use an explicit flag; allows
drivers to force s/w fallback for entries in the global table
o change callback api to allocate driver resources for a crypto key:
- de-const the key parameter so drivers can muck with the flags
- on callback failure don't automatically try to setup s/w crypto;
instead the driver must now mark the key entry for s/w crypto and
the caller will re-attach the cipher module
NB: api change permits drivers more control over fallback to s/w
crypto (e.g. based on a limited number of h/w key slots)
For receive:
o explicitly tag rx frames w/ M_AMPDU instead of passing frames through
the reorder processing according to the node having HT and the frame
being QoS data
o relax ieee80211_ampdu_reorder asserts to allow any frame to be passed
in, unsuitable frames are returned to the caller for normal processing;
this permits drivers that cannot inspect the PLCP to mark all data
frames as potential ampdu candidates with only a small penalty
o add M_AMPDU_MPDU to identify frames resubmitted from the reorder q
For transmit:
o tag aggregation candidates with M_AMPDU_MPDU
o fix the QoS ack policy set in ampdu subframes; we only support immediate
BA streams which should be marked for "normal ack" to get implicit block
ack behaviour; interestingly certain vendor parts BA'd frames with the
11e BA ack policy set
o do not assign a sequence # to aggregation candidates; this must be done
when frames are submitted for transmit (NB: this can/will be handled
better when aggregation is pulled up to net80211)
properly; was doing this only on a change in the protection mode
so the advertised protection mode in the beacon would oscillate.
Submitted by: Chris Zimmermann
o use txa_start to form the addba request and purge txa_seqstart
o fill txa_start before calling ic_addba_request to permit drivers
to override when they handle seq# generation (e.g. mwl)
it's unclear if this can happen on freebsd but does appear on netbsd.
Identified by Matthias Drochner who came up with an initial change
that we then revised together.
Reviewed by: thompsa, sephe, avatar
MFC after: 2 weeks
turns out some devices do this and since we otherwise validate the station
is associated and don't use the aid for anything being lenient here allows
them to function
Submitted by: Chris Zimmermann
MFC after: 2 weeks
some longstanding issues:
o pass the vap since it's now the "coin of the realm" and required
to do things like set initial tx parameters in private node
state for use prior to association
o pass the mac address as cards that maintain outboard station
tables require this to create an entry (e.g. in ibss mode)
o remove the node table reference, we only have one node table
and it's unlikely this will change so this is not needed to
find the com structure
address specified in the ioctl and for drivers that need the address
to locate a key (e.g. for delete).
Note this changes net80211-private api's but not the driver callback;
may want to change that in the future.
Reviewed by: sephe, thompsa
o construct a name for the com lock as done for other locks
o pass the device name to IEEE80211_LOCK_INIT so the mtx name
is constructed as foo_com_lock
o introduce *_LOCK_OBJ macro's to hide the lock contents and
minimize redundant code
to spam all vaps and this won't happen if the frame comes from a station
that is associated to an ap vap (and so has an entry in the table)
Noticed by: Jared Go
Reviewed by: thompsa
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
o add IEEE80211_C_STA capability to indicate sta mode is supported
(was previously assumed) and mark drivers as capable
o add ieee80211_opcap array to map an opmode to the equivalent capability bit
o move IEEE80211_C_OPMODE definition to where capabilities are defined so it's
clear it should be kept in sync (on future additions)
o check device capabilities in clone create before trying to create a vap;
this makes driver checks unneeded
o make error codes return on failed clone request unique
o temporarily add console printfs on clone request failures to aid in
debugging; these will move under DIAGNOSTIC or similar before release
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)
while still restricting auto-channel select to only those channels
permitted by regulatory constraints (sorta, we're still missing the
checks to honor radar and noadhoc status on channels). This somehow
got lost in the initial merge of the revised scanning code.
Reviewed by: jhay
MFC after: 2 weeks
sends frames up the stack after changing the current channel then
the lookup by ieee channel number may fail leaving a null ptr in
se_chan; if this happens fallback to the channel recorded when the
frame is processed (curchan). Since the frame doesn't contribute
to scan results for the sta this is acceptable.
Reviewed by: thompsa
MFC after: 3 days
o do not override the home channel recorded for the sta when the frame is
received off-channel; this fixes a problem where we might think the sta
was operating on the channel the frame was received on causing association
requests to be ignored/rejected (likely cause of kern/99036)
o don't include rssi of off-channel frames in the avg rssi used to select
a bss; this gives us a better estimate of the signal we will see for the
station when on-channel
PR: kern/99036
Found by: Yubin Gong
Reviewed by: sephe
MFC after: 1 week
don't do this right; instead go to the scan cache so we pass through
auth state (if the cache is warm we can do this w/o an actual scan)
MFC after: 1 week
to the node before starting the work, otherwise the node may go
away before a reference is made in ieee80211_send_mgmt.
Approved by: re (blanket wireless)
Obtained from: Atheros