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
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