device drivers to declare that the ifp->if_start() method implemented
by the driver requires Giant in order to operate correctly.
Add a 'struct task' to 'struct ifnet' that can be used to execute a
deferred ifp->if_start() in the event that if_start needs to be called
in a Giant-free environment. To do this, introduce if_start(), a
wrapper function for ifp->if_start(). If the interface can run MPSAFE,
it directly dispatches into the interface start routine. If it can't
run MPSAFE, we're running with debug.mpsafenet != 0, and Giant isn't
currently held, the task is queued to execute in a swi holding Giant
via if_start_deferred().
Modify if_handoff() to use if_start() instead of direct dispatch.
Modify 802.11 to use if_start() instead of direct dispatch.
This is intended to provide increased compatibility for non-MPSAFE
network device drivers in the presence of Giant-free operation via
asynchronous dispatch. However, this commit does not mark any network
interfaces as IFF_NEEDSGIANT.
your (network) modules as well as any userland that might make sense of
sizeof(struct ifnet).
This does not change the queueing yet. These changes will follow in a
seperate commit. Same with the driver changes, which need case by case
evaluation.
__FreeBSD_version bump will follow.
Tested-by: (i386)LINT
o The ieee80211_media_status() function updates the ifi_link_state field
and calls rt_ifmsg() to notify listeners on the routing socket.
Approved by: sam
refcnt on the node but left it in the node table. This allows the node table
to hold the results of scanned ap's but for ibss scans left nodes w/o any
driver-private state setup and/or a bad refcnt (when the nodes were timed
out they were prematurely discarded). Now we treat nodes identified for ap
scanning as before but force nodes discovered when scanning for ibss neighbors
to have complete/proper state and hold the refcnt on the node. Any other
nodes created because of these frames are discarded directly (need to optimize
this case to eliminate various work that's immediately discarded).
o remove IEEE80211_C_RCVMGT capability
o on transmit craft new nodes as needed using new ieee80211_find_txnode routine
o add ieee80211_find_txnode routine to lookup a node by mac address and
if not present create one when operating in ibss/ahdemo mode; new nodes
are dup'd from bss and the driver is told to treat the node as if a new
association has been created so driver-private state (e.g. rate control
handling) is setup
Obtained from: netbsd (basic idea)
blindy copying the node contents; this turns out to be a bad idea as we
add more state in the node for things like WPA
o track node allocation failures in ieee80211_dup_bss instead of the callers
Obtained from: madwifi
active scan is completed just as WI_RID_READ_APS.
This fixes wicontrol -L for ath(4) and awi(4) to have results even if
the driver cannot associate any APs.
o #ifdef _KERNEL the fallback definition for DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO
o fix many comments
o rename antenna stuff and fix units/reference signal
o change IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_DBM_TX_POWER from unsigned 16-bit value
to a signed 8-bit value
o change IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_FLAGS from 16 bits to 8 bits to simplify
padding requirements
o drop IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_TIME
o change IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_ANTENNA from 16 bits to 8 bits
o drop IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_PAD
o add channel flag definitions for outside the kernel so radiotap
doesn't depend on stuff in ieee80211*.h
Obtained from: NetBSD
o reject scan requests for a device that isn't marked up
This fixes a problem where requesting a scan before marking the device
up would cause a panic because the current channel was set to "any" (0xffff).
if_xname, if_dname, and if_dunit. if_xname is the name of the interface
and if_dname/unit are the driver name and instance.
This change paves the way for interface renaming and enhanced pseudo
device creation and configuration symantics.
Approved By: re (in principle)
Reviewed By: njl, imp
Tested On: i386, amd64, sparc64
Obtained From: NetBSD (if_xname)
node lock while sending a management frame as this will potentially
result in a LOR with a driver lock. This doesn't happen for the
Atheros driver but does for the wi driver. Use a generation number
to help process each node once when scanning the node table and
drop the node lock if we need to timeout a node and send a frame.
AP has basic rates that we do not support then ignore them instead
of marking the rate set in error.
This fixes an 11b station associating with an 11g/b AP.
things than record a single value.
o add a per-node method for returning the "current RSSI" for a node
o create a default method that returns ni_rssi which is the rssi for
the last received frame
o use the per-node "get rssi" method to return data for the RID's
submitted by wicontrol, et. al.
Loosely based on work by Tom Marshall <tommy@home.tig-grr.com> for MADWIFI.
In particular, let drivers send up control frames so we can dispatch
them to bpf in monitor mode.
This is the first (small) step to adding more functionality such as
power save mode.
capabilities for outbound management frames. But beware of sending
this when operating on 5GHz channels; some 11a AP's reject association
requests if this bit is set in the capabilities listed.
Obtained from: MADWIFI (with modifications)
