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Revision tags: release/7.0.0_cvs, release/7.0.0, release/6.3.0_cvs, release/6.3.0
# 1b6167d2 02-Nov-2007 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

sync 11n support with vap code base; many changes based on interop
testing with all major vendors

MFC after: 1 week


# b1acbdbb 05-Sep-2007 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

o add M_WEP mbuf flag so drivers can mark frames that are decrypted by the
device and have had the crypto bits stripped from the 802.11 header
o strip mbuf flags in the rx path before passing up th

o add M_WEP mbuf flag so drivers can mark frames that are decrypted by the
device and have had the crypto bits stripped from the 802.11 header
o strip mbuf flags in the rx path before passing up the stack

Reviewed by: thompsa, sephe, avatar
Approved by: re (blanket wireless)

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# b038594e 25-Jun-2007 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

Correct msecs_to_ticks macro. This fixes problems when hz is not the
default 1000 setting.

Reviewed by: thompsa, rpaulo
Approved by: re (bmah)


# 68e8e04e 11-Jun-2007 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

Update 802.11 wireless support:
o major overhaul of the way channels are handled: channels are now
fully enumerated and uniquely identify the operating characteristics;
these changes are visible

Update 802.11 wireless support:
o major overhaul of the way channels are handled: channels are now
fully enumerated and uniquely identify the operating characteristics;
these changes are visible to user applications which require changes
o make scanning support independent of the state machine to enable
background scanning and roaming
o move scanning support into loadable modules based on the operating
mode to enable different policies and reduce the memory footprint
on systems w/ constrained resources
o add background scanning in station mode (no support for adhoc/ibss
mode yet)
o significantly speedup sta mode scanning with a variety of techniques
o add roaming support when background scanning is supported; for now
we use a simple algorithm to trigger a roam: we threshold the rssi
and tx rate, if either drops too low we try to roam to a new ap
o add tx fragmentation support
o add first cut at 802.11n support: this code works with forthcoming
drivers but is incomplete; it's included now to establish a baseline
for other drivers to be developed and for user applications
o adjust max_linkhdr et. al. to reflect 802.11 requirements; this eliminates
prepending mbufs for traffic generated locally
o add support for Atheros protocol extensions; mainly the fast frames
encapsulation (note this can be used with any card that can tx+rx
large frames correctly)
o add sta support for ap's that beacon both WPA1+2 support
o change all data types from bsd-style to posix-style
o propagate noise floor data from drivers to net80211 and on to user apps
o correct various issues in the sta mode state machine related to handling
authentication and association failures
o enable the addition of sta mode power save support for drivers that need
net80211 support (not in this commit)
o remove old WI compatibility ioctls (wicontrol is officially dead)
o change the data structures returned for get sta info and get scan
results so future additions will not break user apps
o fixed tx rate is now maintained internally as an ieee rate and not an
index into the rate set; this needs to be extended to deal with
multi-mode operation
o add extended channel specifications to radiotap to enable 11n sniffing

Drivers:
o ath: add support for bg scanning, tx fragmentation, fast frames,
dynamic turbo (lightly tested), 11n (sniffing only and needs
new hal)
o awi: compile tested only
o ndis: lightly tested
o ipw: lightly tested
o iwi: add support for bg scanning (well tested but may have some
rough edges)
o ral, ural, rum: add suppoort for bg scanning, calibrate rssi data
o wi: lightly tested

This work is based on contributions by Atheros, kmacy, sephe, thompsa,
mlaier, kevlo, and others. Much of the scanning work was supported by
Atheros. The 11n work was supported by Marvell.

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# ae8b7333 06-Jun-2007 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

copyright updates:
o update to include 2007
o switch back to a 2-clause bsd-only license

Reviewed by: onoe


# 3c419c1b 07-Mar-2007 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

When dispatching frames saved on the power save queue to a
station exiting power save mode prepend them to the driver's
send q instead of appending them. This insures the packets
are not misordered

When dispatching frames saved on the power save queue to a
station exiting power save mode prepend them to the driver's
send q instead of appending them. This insures the packets
are not misordered wrt any packets already q'd for the station.

This corrects a problem noticed when using a VoIP phone talking
to an ath card in ap mode; the misordered packets caused noise.

Submitted by: "J.R. Oldroyd" <jr@opal.com>
MFC after: 2 weeks

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Revision tags: release/6.2.0_cvs, release/6.2.0
# 5675bedd 09-Jan-2007 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

reduce user-visible namespace to just what is needed

MFC after: 2 weeks


# 37c970e4 09-Jan-2007 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

bandaid to unbreak build (user code includes this file)


# 915f1482 08-Jan-2007 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

Fix potential node refcnt leak. If mbufs are q'd on ic_mgtq when
the state machine clocks to INIT, node references are not reclaimed.
Add a new routine ieee80211_drain_ifq that does this and use it

Fix potential node refcnt leak. If mbufs are q'd on ic_mgtq when
the state machine clocks to INIT, node references are not reclaimed.
Add a new routine ieee80211_drain_ifq that does this and use it
instead of IF_DRAIN.

Submitted by: Sepherosa Ziehau
Obtained from: DragonFly
MFC after: 1 month

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# 246b5467 26-Jul-2006 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

add support for 802.11 packet injection via bpf

Together with: Andrea Bittau <a.bittau@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Reviewed by: arch@
MFC after: 1 month


Revision tags: release/5.5.0_cvs, release/5.5.0, release/6.1.0_cvs, release/6.1.0, release/6.0.0_cvs, release/6.0.0
# c1225b52 08-Aug-2005 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

Split crypto tx+rx key indices and add a key index -> node mapping table:

Crypto changes:
o change driver/net80211 key_alloc api to return tx+rx key indices; a
driver can leave the rx key index se

Split crypto tx+rx key indices and add a key index -> node mapping table:

Crypto changes:
o change driver/net80211 key_alloc api to return tx+rx key indices; a
driver can leave the rx key index set to IEEE80211_KEYIX_NONE or set
it to be the same as the tx key index (the former disables use of
the key index in building the keyix->node mapping table and is the
default setup for naive drivers by null_key_alloc)
o add cs_max_keyid to crypto state to specify the max h/w key index a
driver will return; this is used to allocate the key index mapping
table and to bounds check table loookups
o while here introduce ieee80211_keyix (finally) for the type of a h/w
key index
o change crypto notifiers for rx failures to pass the rx key index up
as appropriate (michael failure, replay, etc.)

Node table changes:
o optionally allocate a h/w key index to node mapping table for the
station table using the max key index setting supplied by drivers
(note the scan table does not get a map)
o defer node table allocation to lateattach so the driver has a chance
to set the max key id to size the key index map
o while here also defer the aid bitmap allocation
o add new ieee80211_find_rxnode_withkey api to find a sta/node entry
on frame receive with an optional h/w key index to use in checking
mapping table; also updates the map if it does a hash lookup and the
found node has a rx key index set in the unicast key; note this work
is separated from the old ieee80211_find_rxnode call so drivers do
not need to be aware of the new mechanism
o move some node table manipulation under the node table lock to close
a race on node delete
o add ieee80211_node_delucastkey to do the dirty work of deleting
unicast key state for a node (deletes any key and handles key map
references)

Ath driver:
o nuke private sc_keyixmap mechansim in favor of net80211 support
o update key alloc api

These changes close several race conditions for the ath driver operating
in ap mode. Other drivers should see no change. Station mode operation
for ath no longer uses the key index map but performance tests show no
noticeable change and this will be fixed when the scan table is eliminated
with the new scanning support.

Tested by: Michal Mertl, avatar, others
Reviewed by: avatar, others
MFC after: 2 weeks

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# bc5627d9 06-Jul-2005 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

Fix handling of data frames queued for a station in power save mode:
don't mark the MORE_DATA bit when taking it off the ps queue, there's
no 802.11 header then; we must wait to do this at encap time

Fix handling of data frames queued for a station in power save mode:
don't mark the MORE_DATA bit when taking it off the ps queue, there's
no 802.11 header then; we must wait to do this at encap time so
mark the mbuf instead.

Reviewed by: avatar
Approved by: re (scottl)
Obtained from: Atheros

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Revision tags: release/5.4.0_cvs, release/5.4.0
# 0942c81c 04-Apr-2005 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

remove extern from function decls


# 0fc5fe12 29-Mar-2005 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

pass re-association events up using a new message type


Revision tags: release/4.11.0_cvs, release/4.11.0
# 1f1d7810 31-Dec-2004 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

bump copyright for 2005


# 8a1b9b6a 08-Dec-2004 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

Update 802.11 support; too much new functionality to fully describe
here but it includes completed 802.11g, WPA, 802.11i, 802.1x, WME/WMM,
AP-side power-save, crypto plugin framework, authenticator p

Update 802.11 support; too much new functionality to fully describe
here but it includes completed 802.11g, WPA, 802.11i, 802.1x, WME/WMM,
AP-side power-save, crypto plugin framework, authenticator plugin framework,
and access control plugin frameowrk.

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# b6108616 07-Apr-2010 Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>

net80211 rate control framework (net80211 ratectl).

This framework allows drivers to abstract the rate control algorithm and
just feed the framework with the usable parameters. The rate control
fram

net80211 rate control framework (net80211 ratectl).

This framework allows drivers to abstract the rate control algorithm and
just feed the framework with the usable parameters. The rate control
framework will now deal with passing the parameters to the selected
algorithm. Right now we have AMRR (the default) and RSSADAPT but there's
no way to select one with ifconfig, yet.
The objective is to have more rate control algorithms in the net80211
stack so all drivers[0] can use it. Ideally, we'll have the well-known
sample rate control algorithm in the net80211 at some point so all
drivers can use it (not just ath).

[0] all drivers that do rate control in software, that is.

Reviewed by: bschmidt, thompsa, weyongo
MFC after: 1 months

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# 11e9b8ba 04-Aug-2009 Oleksandr Tymoshenko <gonzo@FreeBSD.org>

- MFC @196061


# 59aa14a9 11-Jul-2009 Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>

Implementation of the upcoming Wireless Mesh standard, 802.11s, on the
net80211 wireless stack. This work is based on the March 2009 D3.0 draft
standard. This standard is expected to become final nex

Implementation of the upcoming Wireless Mesh standard, 802.11s, on the
net80211 wireless stack. This work is based on the March 2009 D3.0 draft
standard. This standard is expected to become final next year.
This includes two main net80211 modules, ieee80211_mesh.c
which deals with peer link management, link metric calculation,
routing table control and mesh configuration and ieee80211_hwmp.c
which deals with the actually routing process on the mesh network.
HWMP is the mandatory routing protocol on by the mesh standard, but
others, such as RA-OLSR, can be implemented.

Authentication and encryption are not implemented.

There are several scripts under tools/tools/net80211/scripts that can be
used to test different mesh network topologies and they also teach you
how to setup a mesh vap (for the impatient: ifconfig wlan0 create
wlandev ... wlanmode mesh).

A new build option is available: IEEE80211_SUPPORT_MESH and it's enabled
by default on GENERIC kernels for i386, amd64, sparc64 and pc98.

Drivers that support mesh networks right now are: ath, ral and mwl.

More information at: http://wiki.freebsd.org/WifiMesh

Please note that this work is experimental. Also, please note that
bridging a mesh vap with another network interface is not yet supported.

Many thanks to the FreeBSD Foundation for sponsoring this project and to
Sam Leffler for his support.
Also, I would like to thank Gateworks Corporation for sending me a
Cambria board which was used during the development of this project.

Reviewed by: sam
Approved by: re (kensmith)
Obtained from: projects/mesh11s

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# 5b16c28c 05-Jul-2009 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

Add ieee80211_ageq; a facility for staging packets that require
long-term work before they can be serviced. Packets are tagged and
assigned an age (in seconds) at the point they are added to the
que

Add ieee80211_ageq; a facility for staging packets that require
long-term work before they can be serviced. Packets are tagged and
assigned an age (in seconds) at the point they are added to the
queue. If a packet is not retrieved before it's age expires it is
reclaimed. Tagging can take two forms: a reference to an ieee80211_node
(as happens in the tx path) or an opaque token in cases where there
is no reference or the node structure is not stable (i.e. it's going
to be destroyed).

o add ic_stageq to replace the per-node wds staging queue used for
dynamic wds
o add ieee80211_mac_hash for building ageq tokens; this computes a
32-bit hash from an 802.11 mac address (copied from the bridge)
o while here fix a stray ';' noticed in IEEE80211_PSQ_INIT

Reviewed by: rpaulo
Approved by: re (kensmith)

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# 2e370a5c 26-May-2009 Oleksandr Tymoshenko <gonzo@FreeBSD.org>

Merge from HEAD


# f6ac5011 20-May-2009 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

Prepare to distribute sysctl code to reduce global definitions:
o expose net.wlan sysctl node
o expose ieee80211_sysctl_msecs_ticks

Reviewed by: rpaulo, thompsa


# e7153b25 07-May-2009 Oleksandr Tymoshenko <gonzo@FreeBSD.org>

Merge from HEAD


# 5efea30f 02-May-2009 Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org>

Create a taskqueue for each wireless interface which provides a serialised
sleepable context for net80211 driver callbacks. This removes the need for USB
and firmware based drivers to roll their own

Create a taskqueue for each wireless interface which provides a serialised
sleepable context for net80211 driver callbacks. This removes the need for USB
and firmware based drivers to roll their own code to defer the chip programming
for state changes, scan requests, channel changes and mcast/promisc updates.
When a driver callback completes the hardware state is now guaranteed to have
been updated and is in sync with net80211 layer.

This nukes around 1300 lines of code from the wireless device drivers making
them more readable and less race prone.

The net80211 layer has been updated as follows
- all state/channel changes are serialised on the taskqueue.
- ieee80211_new_state() always queues and can now be called from any context
- scanning runs from a single taskq function and executes to completion. driver
callbacks are synchronous so the channel, phy mode and rx filters are
guaranteed to be set in hardware before probe request frames are
transmitted.

Help and contributions from Sam Leffler.

Reviewed by: sam

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Revision tags: release/7.2.0_cvs, release/7.2.0
# 9a841c7f 27-Apr-2009 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

Store the tx seq# of an 802.11 frame in the mbuf pkthdr; this will be
used for s/w retransmit schemes that want to access this information
w/o the overhead of decoding the raw frame. Note this also

Store the tx seq# of an 802.11 frame in the mbuf pkthdr; this will be
used for s/w retransmit schemes that want to access this information
w/o the overhead of decoding the raw frame. Note this also allows
drivers to record this information w/o writing the frame when the seq#
is obtained through an out-of-band mechanism (e.g. when a h/w assigned
seq# is reported in a descriptor on tx done notification).

Reviewed by: sephe, avatar

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