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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Make it compilable. No idea if it works.

Catch up with HEAD (r280229-r284686).

MFH: r282615-r283655

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

Make net80211 drivers supply their device name to the net80211 layer, so
that the latter doesn't need to go through struct ifnet to get their name.

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Replace 'struct route *' if_output() argument with 'struct nhop_info *'.
Leave 'struct route' as is for legacy routing api users.
Remove most of rtalloc_ign*-derived functions.

IFC @ r234692

sys/amd64/include/cpufunc.h
sys/amd64/include/fpu.h
sys/amd64/amd64/fpu.c
sys/amd64/vmm/vmm.c

- Add API to allow vmm FPU state init/save/restore.

FP stuff discussed with: kib

IFC @230489 (pending review).

Introduce wtap, the beginnings of a net80211 wlan simulator.

This introduces:

* a basic wtap interface
* a HAL, which implements an abstraction layer for implementing
different device behavious;

Introduce wtap, the beginnings of a net80211 wlan simulator.

This introduces:

* a basic wtap interface
* a HAL, which implements an abstraction layer for implementing
different device behavious;
* A visibility plugin, which allows for control over which nodes
see other nodes (useful for mesh work.)

It doesn't yet implement sta/adhoc/hostap modes but these are quite
feasible to implement.

Monthadar uses it to do 802.11s mesh verification.

The userland tools will be committed in a follow-up commit.

Submitted by: Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar@gmail.com>

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