History log of /freebsd-current/sys/dev/usb/wlan/if_urtwvar.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/


# 62d42655 07-Oct-2022 Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@FreeBSD.org>

usb(4): Substitute "unsigned int" using the equivalent and shorter "unsigned" keyword.

MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: NVIDIA Networking


# cb5d2742 30-Mar-2019 Andriy Voskoboinyk <avos@FreeBSD.org>

urtw(4): export TSF timestamp for received frames via radiotap

Tested with Netgear WG111 v3 (RTL8187B), STA mode.

MFC after: 1 week


# 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


# c15f336d 20-Jan-2019 Andriy Voskoboinyk <avos@FreeBSD.org>

urtw(4): add length checks in Rx path.

- Check if buffer can contain Rx descriptor before accessing it.
- Verify upper / lower bounds for frame length.
- Do not pass too short frames into ieee80211_find_rxnode().

While here:
- Move cleanup to the function end.
- Reuse IEEE80211_IS_DATA() macro.

MFC after: 1 week


# 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


# 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


# c180b398 20-Dec-2012 Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@FreeBSD.org>

Make sure all USB drivers allocate buffer memory
through the USB API and/or busdma.

The following assumptions have been made:
umass - buffers passed from CAM/SCSI layer are OK
network - mbufs are OK.

Some other nits while at it.

MFC after: 1 week
Suggested by: imp


# 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.


# 3769678a 06-Apr-2010 Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org>

MFC r203087

adds sysctl knobs to show rate statistics that it could be useful to
debug slow TX speed.


# 1d3d5952 27-Jan-2010 Weongyo Jeong <weongyo@FreeBSD.org>

adds sysctl knobs to show rate statistics that it could be useful to
debug slow TX speed.


# c39d541d 09-Dec-2009 Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org>

MFC r197761,r198194,r198862

updates device entries supported with the product name not magic numbers
and sorts entries. WUSB54GCV2 is added.

overhauls urtw(4) for supporting RTL8187B devices properly that there
was major changes to initialize RF chipset and set H/W registers and
removed a lot of magic numbers on code.


# a0585a14 17-Oct-2009 Weongyo Jeong <weongyo@FreeBSD.org>

overhauls urtw(4) for supporting RTL8187B devices properly that there
was major changes to initialize RF chipset and set H/W registers and
removed a lot of magic numbers on code. Details are as follows:

- uses the endpoint 0x89 to get TX status information which used to
get TX complete or retry numbers or get a beacon interrupt. It's
only valuable for RTL8187B.
- removes urtw_write[8|16|32]_i functions that it's useless now.
- uses ic->ic_updateslot to set SLOT, SIFS, DIES, EIFS, CW_VAL
registers that doesn't set these whenever the channel is changed.
- code for initializing RF chipset for RTL8187B changed a lot that
there was many problems on TX transfers so it doesn't work properly
even if just for a ping/pong. Now it becomes more stable than
before that TX throughputs using netperf(1) were about 15 ~ 17Mbps/s
though sometimes it encounters packet losses.
- removes a lot of magic numbers that in the previous all of
representing RX and TX descriptors were consisted of magic numbers
and structures. It'd be more readable rather than before.
- calculates TX duration more accurately for urtw(4) devices.
- style(9)


# e0a69b51 29-May-2009 Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org>

s/usb2_/usb_/ on all typedefs for the USB stack.


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

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


# f58ca841 26-May-2009 Weongyo Jeong <weongyo@FreeBSD.org>

ports urtw(4) for USB2. Additionally it supports a 8187B chipset weakly
that it needs more stabilization.