Change KPI of how device drivers that provide wireless connectivity interact
with the net80211 stack.

Historical background: originally wireless devices created an interface,
just like Ethernet devi

Change KPI of how device drivers that provide wireless connectivity interact
with the net80211 stack.

Historical background: originally wireless devices created an interface,
just like Ethernet devices do. Name of an interface matched the name of
the driver that created. Later, wlan(4) layer was introduced, and the
wlanX interfaces become the actual interface, leaving original ones as
"a parent interface" of wlanX. Kernelwise, the KPI between net80211 layer
and a driver became a mix of methods that pass a pointer to struct ifnet
as identifier and methods that pass pointer to struct ieee80211com. From
user point of view, the parent interface just hangs on in the ifconfig
list, and user can't do anything useful with it.

Now, the struct ifnet goes away. The struct ieee80211com is the only
KPI between a device driver and net80211. Details:

- The struct ieee80211com is embedded into drivers softc.
- Packets are sent via new ic_transmit method, which is very much like
the previous if_transmit.
- Bringing parent up/down is done via new ic_parent method, which notifies
driver about any changes: number of wlan(4) interfaces, number of them
in promisc or allmulti state.
- Device specific ioctls (if any) are received on new ic_ioctl method.
- Packets/errors accounting are done by the stack. In certain cases, when
driver experiences errors and can not attribute them to any specific
interface, driver updates ic_oerrors or ic_ierrors counters.

Details on interface configuration with new world order:
- A sequence of commands needed to bring up wireless DOESN"T change.
- /etc/rc.conf parameters DON'T change.
- List of devices that can be used to create wlan(4) interfaces is
now provided by net.wlan.devices sysctl.

Most drivers in this change were converted by me, except of wpi(4),
that was done by Andriy Voskoboinyk. Big thanks to Kevin Lo for testing
changes to at least 8 drivers. Thanks to Olivier Cochard, gjb@, mmoll@,
op@ and lev@, who also participated in testing. Details here:

https://wiki.freebsd.org/projects/ifnet/net80211

Still, drivers: ndis, wtap, mwl, ipw, bwn, wi, upgt, uath were not
tested. Changes to mwl, ipw, bwn, wi, upgt are trivial and chances
of problems are low. The wtap wasn't compilable even before this change.
But the ndis driver is complex, and it is likely to be broken with this
commit. Help with testing and debugging it is appreciated.

Differential Revision: D2655, D2740
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MFC @ r266724

An SVM update will follow this.

IFC @266473

Merge from head

Bring over some initial power save management support, reset path
fixes and beacon programming / debugging into the ath(4) driver.

The basic power save tracking:

* Add some new code to track the cu

Bring over some initial power save management support, reset path
fixes and beacon programming / debugging into the ath(4) driver.

The basic power save tracking:

* Add some new code to track the current desired powersave state; and
* Add some reference count tracking so we know when the NIC is awake; then
* Add code in all the points where we're about to touch the hardware and
push it to force-wake.

Then, how things are moved into power save:

* Only move into network-sleep during a RUN->SLEEP transition;
* Force wake the hardware up everywhere that we're about to touch
the hardware.

The net80211 stack takes care of doing RUN<->SLEEP<->(other) state
transitions so we don't have to do it in the driver.

Next, when to wake things up:

* In short - everywhere we touch the hardware.
* The hardware will take care of staying awake if things are queued
in the transmit queue(s); it'll then transit down to sleep if
there's nothing left. This way we don't have to track the
software / hardware transmit queue(s) and keep the hardware
awake for those.

Then, some transmit path fixes that aren't related but useful:

* Force EAPOL frames to go out at the lowest rate. This improves
reliability during the encryption handshake after 802.11
negotiation.

Next, some reset path fixes!

* Fix the overlap between reset and transmit pause so we don't
transmit frames during a reset.
* Some noisy environments will end up taking a lot longer to reset
than normal, so extend the reset period and drop the raise the
reset interval to be more realistic and give the hardware some
time to finish calibration.
* Skip calibration during the reset path. Tsk!

Then, beacon fixes in station mode!

* Add a _lot_ more debugging in the station beacon reset path.
This is all quite fluid right now.
* Modify the STA beacon programming code to try and take
the TU gap between desired TSF and the target TU into
account. (Lifted from QCA.)

Tested:

* AR5210
* AR5211
* AR5212
* AR5413
* AR5416
* AR9280
* AR9285

TODO:

* More AP, IBSS, mesh, TDMA testing
* Thorough AR9380 and later testing!
* AR9160 and AR9287 testing

Obtained from: QCA

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IFC @264767

MFC @ r259205 in preparation for some SVM updates. (for real this time)

Merge head r232040 through r257457.
M usr.sbin/portsnap/portsnap/portsnap.8
M usr.sbin/portsnap/portsnap/portsnap.sh
M usr.sbin/tcpdump/tcpdump/Makefile

The r48589 promised to remove implicit inclusion of if_var.h soon. Prepare
to this event, adding if_var.h to files that do need it. Also, include
all includes that now are included due to implicit po

The r48589 promised to remove implicit inclusion of if_var.h soon. Prepare
to this event, adding if_var.h to files that do need it. Also, include
all includes that now are included due to implicit pollution via if_var.h

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Merge fresh head.

Sync with HEAD.

IFC @r243836

MFC

Don't allocate or program a key for the AR5210.

The AR5210 doesn't support HAL_CIPHER_CLR ('clear encryption' keycache
slots), so don't bother - just map them to slot 0 and never program them.

IFC @230489 (pending review).

IFC @ r227804

Pull in the virtio drivers from head.

Add a 'vap' to ath_keyset().

Add some code (which is currently disabled) which modifies the group
multicast key cache behaviour. I haven't yet figured out what the
exact/correct behaviour is so I'm

Add a 'vap' to ath_keyset().

Add some code (which is currently disabled) which modifies the group
multicast key cache behaviour. I haven't yet figured out what the
exact/correct behaviour is so I'm leaving it disabled. It's worth
investigating and "correcting", especially for future work with
mesh/ibss and encryption.

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Merge svn+ssh://svn.freebsd.org/base/head@219553

Break the keycache management functions out into if_ath_keycache.c .