History log of /freebsd-current/sys/dev/usb/wlan/if_uralvar.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 71625ec9 16-Aug-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

sys: Remove $FreeBSD$: one-line .c comment pattern

Remove /^/[*/]\s*\$FreeBSD\$.*\n/


# 9dd3156e 01-Sep-2020 Mateusz Guzik <mjg@FreeBSD.org>

usb: clean up empty lines in .c and .h files


# 786ac703 10-Mar-2019 Andriy Voskoboinyk <avos@FreeBSD.org>

Fix ieee80211_radiotap(9) usage in wireless drivers:

- Alignment issues:
* Add missing __packed attributes + padding across all drivers; in
most places there was an assumption that padding will be always
minimally suitable; in few places - e.g., in urtw(4) / rtwn(4) -
padding was just missing.
* Add __aligned(8) attribute for all Rx radiotap headers since they can
contain 64-bit TSF timestamp; it cannot appear in Tx radiotap headers, so
just drop the attribute here. Refresh ieee80211_radiotap(9) man page
accordingly.

- Since net80211 automatically updates channel frequency / flags in
ieee80211_radiotap_chan_change() drop duplicate setup for these fields
in drivers.

Tested with Netgear WG111 v3 (urtw(4)), STA mode.

MFC after: 2 weeks


# f6930bec 02-Oct-2016 Andriy Voskoboinyk <avos@FreeBSD.org>

net80211: ieee80211_ratectl*: switch to reusable KPI

Replace various void * / int argument combinations with common structures:
- ieee80211_ratectl_tx_status for *_tx_complete();
- ieee80211_ratectl_tx_stats for *_tx_update();

While here, improve amrr_tx_update() for a bit:
1. In case, if receiver is not known (typical for Ralink USB drivers),
refresh Tx rate for all nodes on the interface.
2. There was a misuse:
- otus(4) sends non-decreasing counters (as originally intended);
- but ural(4), rum(4) and run(4) are using 'read & clear' registers
to obtain statistics for some period of time (and those 'last period'
values are used as arguments for tx_update()). If arguments are not big
enough, they are just discarded after the next call.

Fix: move counting into *_tx_update()
(now otus(4) will zero out all node counters after every tx_update() call)

Tested with:
- Intel 3945BG (wpi(4)), STA mode.
- WUSB54GC (rum(4)), STA / HOSTAP mode.
- RTL8188EU (urtwn(4)), STA mode.

Reviewed by: adrian
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8037


# ae132f11 03-Mar-2016 Andriy Voskoboinyk <avos@FreeBSD.org>

zyd, run, ural: do not corrupt MAC address

Do not use ic_macaddr as a storage for current BSSID;
it may be reused in vap creation procedure;
similar to r288619.

Approved by: adrian (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5513


# 4f4a7a03 11-Oct-2015 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

net80211 drivers: eliminate any references to sc_rxtap_len/sc_txtap_len (never used here)

Submitted by: <s3erios@gmail.com>
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3776


# 0cf00015 22-Sep-2015 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

net80211: include one copy of struct ieee80211_beacon_offsets into ieee80211vap

Submitted by: Andriy Voskoboinyk <s3erios@gmail.com>
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3658


# 7a79cebf 27-Aug-2015 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>

Replay r286410. 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 pluknet@, Oliver Hartmann,
Olivier Cochard, gjb@, mmoll@, op@ and lev@, who also participated in
testing.

Reviewed by: adrian
Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.


# ba2c1fbc 07-Aug-2015 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

Revert the wifi ifnet changes until things are more baked and tested.

* 286410
* 286413
* 286416

The initial commit broke a variety of debug and features that aren't
in the GENERIC kernels but are enabled in other platforms.


# 79d2c5e8 07-Aug-2015 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>

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


# e8353a7a 28-Jul-2013 Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@FreeBSD.org>

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>


# 645e4d17 10-Feb-2013 Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@FreeBSD.org>

- 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


# a7d5f7eb 19-Oct-2010 Jamie Gritton <jamie@FreeBSD.org>

A new jail(8) with a configuration file, to replace the work currently done
by /etc/rc.d/jail.


# 82878b11 11-May-2010 Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>

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

net80211 ratectl framework.


# 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
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


# 760bc48e 28-May-2009 Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org>

s/usb2_/usb_/ on all C structs for the USB stack.


# 5463c4a4 20-May-2009 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

Overhaul monitor mode handling:
o replace DLT_IEEE802_11 support in net80211 with DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO
and remove explicit bpf support from wireless drivers; drivers now
use ieee80211_radiotap_attach to setup shared data structures that
hold the radiotap header for each packet tx/rx
o remove rx timestamp from the rx path; it was used only by the tdma support
for debugging and was mostly useless due to it being 32-bits and mostly
unavailable
o track DLT_IEEE80211_RADIO bpf attachments and maintain per-vap and
per-com state when there are active taps
o track the number of monitor mode vaps
o use bpf tap and monitor mode vap state to decide when to collect radiotap
state and dispatch frames; drivers no longer explicitly directly check
bpf state or use bpf calls to tap frames
o handle radiotap state updates on channel change in net80211; drivers
should not do this (unless they bypass net80211 which is almost always
a mistake)
o update various drivers to be more consistent/correct in handling radiotap
o update ral to include TSF in radiotap'd frames
o add promisc mode callback to wi

Reviewed by: cbzimmer, rpaulo, thompsa


# 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 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


# 26d39e2c 29-Mar-2009 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

o add ic_rt to track the rate table for the current channel; this enables
calculation of packet transmit times to do things like check txop limits
o remove equivalent driver code and convert to use net80211 state


# 77ddf3d3 27-Feb-2009 Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org>

Partial sync to //depot/projects/usb

- Reissue the ctrl request on failure
- Ensure Tx and ctrl requests are not interleaved
- Add promisc callbacks

Obtained from: Hans Petter Selasky


# 96ca458f 23-Feb-2009 Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org>

Make sure at least two tx slots are free before sending the mbuf since an
additional frame may be sent for 80211 protection.


# 02ac6454 23-Feb-2009 Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org>

Move the new USB stack into its new home.