Merge ^/head r285924 through r286421.

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
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
Sponsored by: Netflix

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IFC @r269962

Submitted by: Anish Gupta (akgupt3@gmail.com)

Merge head from 7/28

Sync to HEAD@r269943.

Fix for division by zero.

MFC after: 3 days

Merge head

IFC @264767

Merge head up to r262222 (last merge was incomplete).

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

Fix undefined behavior: (1 << 31) is not defined as 1 is an int and this
shifts into the sign bit. Instead use (1U << 31) which gets the
expected result.

This fix is not ideal as it assumes a 32 bi

Fix undefined behavior: (1 << 31) is not defined as 1 is an int and this
shifts into the sign bit. Instead use (1U << 31) which gets the
expected result.

This fix is not ideal as it assumes a 32 bit int, but does fix the issue
for most cases.

A similar change was made in OpenBSD.

Discussed with: -arch, rdivacky
Reviewed by: cperciva

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Merge head r233826 through r256722.

IFC @256277

Approved by: ken (mentor)

Merge from head

IFC @ r254014

IFC @ r253862

- change the SI_SUB_RUN_SCHEDULER sysinits in hv_utilc and
hv_netvsc_drv_freebsd.c to SI_SUB_KTHREAD_IDLE, since the
former is no longer in FreeBSD.
The use of these SYSINITs can pro

IFC @ r253862

- change the SI_SUB_RUN_SCHEDULER sysinits in hv_utilc and
hv_netvsc_drv_freebsd.c to SI_SUB_KTHREAD_IDLE, since the
former is no longer in FreeBSD.
The use of these SYSINITs can probably be removed.

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Fix alignment of USB WLAN radiotap headers. This makes USB WLAN adapters
work on ARM, MIPS and similar platforms, where alignment matters.

MFC after: 1 week
Reported by: XiaoQI Ge <ghw@7axu.com>

IFC @253398

Merge fresh head.

- Correct mispellings of word miscellaneous

Submitted by: Christoph Mallon <christoph.mallon@gmx.de> (via private mail)

sync from head

IFC @247348.

- Streamline detach logic in wlan drivers, so that
freed memory cannot be used during detach.
- Remove all panic() calls from the urtw driver because
panic() is not appropriate here.
- Remove red

- Streamline detach logic in wlan drivers, so that
freed memory cannot be used during detach.
- Remove all panic() calls from the urtw driver because
panic() is not appropriate here.
- Remove redundant checks for device detached in
device detach callbacks.
- Use DEVMETHOD_END to mark end of device methods.

MFC after: 2 weeks

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MFC r206367, r206358, r206370, r206371, r206372, r206398, r206415,
r206416, r206417, r206418, r206418:

net80211 ratectl framework.

Update to current version of head.