Add a ieee80211_waitfor_parent() function that will wait for all deferred
parent interface tasks to complete. This had been added to the ioctl path but
it is also need elsewhere like detach so its sa

Add a ieee80211_waitfor_parent() function that will wait for all deferred
parent interface tasks to complete. This had been added to the ioctl path but
it is also need elsewhere like detach so its safe to teardown.

Reported by: Hans Petter Selasky
Submitted by: sam

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TDMA support for long distance point-to-point links using ath devices:
o add net80211 support for a tdma vap that is built on top of the
existing adhoc-demo support
o add tdma scheduling of frame t

TDMA support for long distance point-to-point links using ath devices:
o add net80211 support for a tdma vap that is built on top of the
existing adhoc-demo support
o add tdma scheduling of frame transmission to the ath driver; it's
conceivable other devices might be capable of this too in which case
they can make use of the 802.11 protocol additions etc.
o add minor bits to user tools that need to know: ifconfig to setup and
configure, new statistics in athstats, and new debug mask bits

While the architecture can support >2 slots in a TDMA BSS the current
design is intended (and tested) for only 2 slots.

Sponsored by: Intel

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integrate from head@185615

move decl up before first use

o change ieee80211_mgmt_output to take a raw xmit parameters block so
the net80211 layer has complete control over the handling of mgt frames
(in particular, the ac, tx rate, and retry count); th

o change ieee80211_mgmt_output to take a raw xmit parameters block so
the net80211 layer has complete control over the handling of mgt frames
(in particular, the ac, tx rate, and retry count); this also allows us
to purge the M_LINK0 flag that was attached to mbufs to mark them as
needing encryption for shared key auth
o change ieee80211_send_setup to take a tid parameter so it can be used
to setup QoS frames

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Add ieee80211_suspend_all and ieee80211_resume_all for
brute force suspend/resume handling of vaps.

declare ieee80211_phymode_name with an array size

Minor cleanup of vap create work:
o add IEEE80211_C_STA capability to indicate sta mode is supported
(was previously assumed) and mark drivers as capable
o add ieee80211_opcap array to map an opmod

Minor cleanup of vap create work:
o add IEEE80211_C_STA capability to indicate sta mode is supported
(was previously assumed) and mark drivers as capable
o add ieee80211_opcap array to map an opmode to the equivalent capability bit
o move IEEE80211_C_OPMODE definition to where capabilities are defined so it's
clear it should be kept in sync (on future additions)
o check device capabilities in clone create before trying to create a vap;
this makes driver checks unneeded
o make error codes return on failed clone request unique
o temporarily add console printfs on clone request failures to aid in
debugging; these will move under DIAGNOSTIC or similar before release

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Multi-bss (aka vap) support for 802.11 devices.

Note this includes changes to all drivers and moves some device firmware
loading to use firmware(9) and a separate module (e.g. ral). Also there
no l

Multi-bss (aka vap) support for 802.11 devices.

Note this includes changes to all drivers and moves some device firmware
loading to use firmware(9) and a separate module (e.g. ral). Also there
no longer are separate wlan_scan* modules; this functionality is now
bundled into the wlan module.

Supported by: Hobnob and Marvell
Reviewed by: many
Obtained from: Atheros (some bits)

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

MFC after: 1 week

Update beacon handling to sync w/ vap code base:
o add driver callback to handle notification of beacon changes;
this is required for devices that manage beacon frames themselves
(devices must ov

Update beacon handling to sync w/ vap code base:
o add driver callback to handle notification of beacon changes;
this is required for devices that manage beacon frames themselves
(devices must override the default handler which does nothing)
o move beacon update-related flags from ieee80211com to the beacon
offsets storage (or handle however a driver wants)
o expand beacon offsets structure with members needed for 11h/dfs
and appie's
o change calling convention for ieee80211_beacon_alloc and
ieee80211_beacon_update
o add overlapping bss support for 11g; requires driver to pass
beacon frames from overlapping bss up to net80211 which is not
presently done by any driver
o move HT beacon contents update to a routine in the HT code area

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

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o add 802.11 state machine states for DFS and client-side power save
o fixup drivers to ignore new states

Reviewed by: avatar (?)
Approved by: re (blanket wireless)

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

Reviewed by: onoe

change ieee80211_fix_rate to take a rate set instead of using
ni_rates; this lets us re-use the code to check 11n HT rates

MFC after: 2 weeks

add ieee80211_opmode_name array for mapping the opmode to a string
for printing diagnostic msgs

MFC after: 2 weeks

Correct several issues with rate set negotiation:
o add IEEE80211_F_JOIN flag to ieee80211_fix_rate to indicate a station
is joining a BSS; this is used to control whether or not we over-write
th

Correct several issues with rate set negotiation:
o add IEEE80211_F_JOIN flag to ieee80211_fix_rate to indicate a station
is joining a BSS; this is used to control whether or not we over-write
the basic rate bit in the calculated rate set
o fix ieee80211_fix_rate to honor IEEE80211_F_DODEL when IEEE80211_F_DONEGO
is not specified (e.g. when joining an ibss network)
o on sta join always delete unusable rates from the negotiated rate set,
this was being done only ibss networks but is also needed for 11g bss
with mixed stations
o on sta join delete unusable rates from the bss node's rate set, not the
scan table entry's rate set
o when calculating a rate set for new neighbors in an ibss caculate a
negotiated rate set so drivers are not presented with rates they should
not use

Submitted by: Sepherosa Ziehau (w/ modifications)
Obtained from: DragonFly
MFC after: 1 month

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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

update erp information element in the beacon frame to reflect
changes in the bss

Reviewed by: avatar
Obtained from: atheros
MFC after: 2 weeks

Add ieee80211_beacon_miss for processing sta mode beacon miss events
in the 802.11 layer: we send a directed probe request frame to the
current ap bmiss_max times (w/o answer) before scanning for a n

Add ieee80211_beacon_miss for processing sta mode beacon miss events
in the 802.11 layer: we send a directed probe request frame to the
current ap bmiss_max times (w/o answer) before scanning for a new ap.

MFC after: 2 weeks

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Extend acl support to pass ioctl requests through and use this to
add support for getting the current policy setting and collecting
the list of mac addresses in the acl table.

Submitted by: Michal M

Extend acl support to pass ioctl requests through and use this to
add support for getting the current policy setting and collecting
the list of mac addresses in the acl table.

Submitted by: Michal Mertl (original version)
MFC after: 2 weeks

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Clarify/fix handling of the current channel:
o add ic_curchan and use it uniformly for specifying the current
channel instead of overloading ic->ic_bss->ni_chan (or in some
drivers ic_ibss_chan)

Clarify/fix handling of the current channel:
o add ic_curchan and use it uniformly for specifying the current
channel instead of overloading ic->ic_bss->ni_chan (or in some
drivers ic_ibss_chan)
o add ieee80211_scanparams structure to encapsulate scanning-related
state captured for rx frames
o move rx beacon+probe response frame handling into separate routines
o change beacon+probe response handling to treat the scan table
more like a scan cache--look for an existing entry before adding
a new one; this combined with ic_curchan use corrects handling of
stations that were previously found at a different channel
o move adhoc neighbor discovery by beacon+probe response frames to
a new ieee80211_add_neighbor routine

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

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split xmit of probe request frame out into a separate routine that
takes explicit parameters; this will be needed when scanning is
decoupled from the state machine to do bg scanning

MFC after: 3 days

simplifiy ieee80211_send_nulldata api

MFC after: 3 days

simplify rate set api's by removing ic parameter (implicit in node reference)

MFC after: 3 days