History log of /freebsd-current/sys/net80211/ieee80211_regdomain.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# 562adbe1 27-Oct-2023 Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org>

net80211: migrate ic_vhtcaps, ic_vht_mcsinfo, ic_flags_vht

Like for the VAP rename ic_flags_vht to ic_vht_flags for consistency to
keep "VHT" fields together and merge ic_vhtcaps and ic_vht_mcsinfo
into struct ieee80211_vht_cap ic_vht_cap.

While the structure layout changes no other functional changes intended.

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 3 days
Reviewed by: adrian, cc
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D42421


# 685dc743 16-Aug-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

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

Remove /^[\s*]*__FBSDID\("\$FreeBSD\$"\);?\s*\n/


# 4d846d26 10-May-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

spdx: The BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier is obsolete, drop -FreeBSD

The SPDX folks have obsoleted the BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier. Catch
up to that fact and revert to their recommended match of BSD-2-Clause.

Discussed with: pfg
MFC After: 3 days
Sponsored by: Netflix


# 04e7bb08 17-Oct-2020 Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org>

net80211: update for (more) VHT160 support

Implement two macros IEEE80211_VHTCAP_SUPP_CHAN_WIDTH_IS_160MHZ()
and its 80+80 counter part to check in vhtcaps for appropriate
levels of support and use the macros throughout the code.

Add vht160_chan_ranges/is_vht160_valid_freq and handle analogue
to vht80 in various parts of the code.

Add ieee80211_add_channel_cbw() which also takes the CBW flag
fields and make the former ieee80211_add_channel() a wrapper to it.
With the CBW flags we can add HT/VHT channels passing them to
getflags() for the 2/5ghz functions.

In ifconfig(8) add the regdomain_addchans() support for VHT160
and VHT80P80.

With this (+ regdoain.xml updates) VHT160 channels can be
configured, listed, and pass regdomain where appropriate.

Tested with: iwlwifi
Reviewed by: adrian
MFC after: 10 days
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26712


# 5152b4f7 07-Oct-2020 Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org>

net80211: whitespace

Fix indentation for the multi-line copies of
ieee80211_add_channel_list_5ghz() for the 3 bands.

MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# fe5ebb23 24-Sep-2020 Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org>

Provide MS() and SM() macros for 80211 and wireless drivers.

We have (two versions) of MS() and SM() macros which we use throughout
the wireless code. Change all but three places (ath_hal, rtwn, and rsu)
to the newly provided _IEEE80211_MASKSHIFT() and _IEEE80211_SHIFTMASK()
macros. Also change one internal case using both _S and _M instead of
just _S away from _M (one of the reasons rtwn and rsu were not changed).

This was done semi-mechanically. No functional changes intended.

Requested by: gnn (D26091)
Reviewed by: adrian (pre line wrap)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Rubicon Communications, LLC (d/b/a "Netgate")
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26539


# 2b9f12f6 24-Aug-2020 Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org>

net80211: enhance getflags*() and ieee80211_add_channel*()

For ieee80211_add_channel+*() we are passing in an int flag for
ht40 and in some cases another int flag for vht80 where we'd only
need two bits really.
Convert these variables to a bitflag and fold them together into one.
This also allows for VHT160 and VHT80P80 and whatever may come to
be considered. Define the various options currently needed.

Change the drivers (rtwn and rsu) which actually set this bit to non-0.
For convenience the "1" currently used for HT40 is preserved.

Enahnce getflags_5ghz() to handle the full set of VHT flags based
on the input flags from the the driver.

Update the regdomain implementation as well to make use of the new
flags and deal with higher [V]HT bandwidths.

ieee80211_add_channel() specifically did not take flags so it will
not support naything beyond 20Mhz channels.

Note: I am not entirely happy with the "cbw_flag[s]" name, but we
do use chan_flags elsewhere already.

MFC after: 2 weeks
Reviewed by: adrian, gnn
Sponsored by: Rubicon Communications, LLC (d/b/a "Netgate")
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26091


# fe267a55 27-Nov-2017 Pedro F. Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>

sys: general adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags.

Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.

The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.

No functional change intended.


# b628bdcc 26-May-2016 Andriy Voskoboinyk <avos@FreeBSD.org>

ifconfig: set by default FCC regulatory domain for wireless interfaces.

Change default regulatory domain from DEBUG (no limitations;
exposes all device channels) to FCC; as a result, newly created wireless
interface with default settings will have less chances to violate
country-specific regulations.

This change will not affect drivers with pre-initialized regdomain
structure (currentry ath(4) and mwl(4)); in that case, the default
channel list must correspond to the default regdomain / country setting.

You can switch to another regdomain / country via corresponding
ifconfig(8) options; the driver must implement ic_getradiocaps()
method to restore full channel list.

Full country / regdomain list may be obtained via
'ifconfig <iface> list countries' command.

Example: change country to Germany:
ifconfig wlan0 down # all wlans on the device must be down
ifconfig wlan0 country DE
ifconfig wlan0 up
# wpa_supplicant(8), dhclient(8) etc

At the creation time:
ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev wpi0 country DE

To make changes permanent add the following line to the rc.conf(5):
create_args_wlan0="country DE"

Tested with
- Intel 3945BG (wpi(4)).
- WUSB54GC (rum(4)).

Reviewed by: adrian
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6228


# a4641f4e 03-May-2016 Pedro F. Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>

sys/net*: minor spelling fixes.

No functional change.


# 355fec48 29-Apr-2016 Andriy Voskoboinyk <avos@FreeBSD.org>

net80211: provide a set of ieee80211_add_channel*() functions

This change adds few methods for net80211 channel table setup:

- ieee80211_add_channel()
- ieee80211_add_channel_ht40()
(primarily for drivers, that parse EEPROM to get channel list -
they will allow to hide implementation details).

- ieee80211_add_channel_list_2ghz()
- ieee80211_add_channel_list_5ghz()
(mostly as a replacement for ieee80211_init_channels() - they will allow
to specify non-default channel list; may be used in ic_getradiocaps()).

Tested with wpi(4) (add_channel) and rum(4) (add_channel_list_2ghz).

Reviewed by: adrian
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6124


# 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


# b9b53389 25-May-2015 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

Convert malloc/free back to #define's, as part of OS portability work.

DragonflyBSD uses the FreeBSD wireless stack and drivers. Their malloc()
API is named differently, so they don't have userland/kernel symbol
clashes like we do (think libuinet.)

So, to make it easier for them and to port to other BSDs/other operating
systems, start hiding the malloc specific bits behind defines in
ieee80211_freebsd.h.

DragonflyBSD can now put these portability defines in their local
ieee80211_dragonflybsd.h.

This should be a great big no-op for everyone running wifi.

TODO:

* kill M_WAITOK - some platforms just don't want you to use it
* .. and/or handle it returning NULL rather than waiting forever.
* MALLOC_DEFINE() ?
* Migrate the well-known malloc names (eg M_TEMP) to net80211
namespace defines.


# c8f5794e 25-May-2015 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>

Use name from ieee80211com instead of parent ifnet, in debugging printfs.

Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.


# c3322cb9 28-Oct-2013 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>

Include necessary headers that now are available due to pollution
via if_var.h.

Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.


# 76039bc8 26-Oct-2013 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>

The r48589 promised to remove implicit inclusion of if_var.h soon. Prepare
to this event, adding if_var.h to files that do need it. Also, include
all includes that now are included due to implicit pollution via if_var.h

Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.


# a2a4a2aa 03-Apr-2012 Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@FreeBSD.org>

Add basic HT channel setup to ieee80211_init_channels(), this will be
used by at least ral(4).

Reviewed by: ray


# 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.


# 6a76ae21 18-Feb-2009 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

Add modes for 1/2 and 1/4-width channels so we have separate roaming
and xmit parameters. This makes it possible to use tdma on fractional
channels.
o add IEEE80211_MODE_HALF and IEEE80211_MODE_QUARTER; note these are
band-agnostic (may need revisiting)
o setup all default rates in ic_sup_rates instead of doing it only
for active modes; we need these to calculate the default tx parameters
which are not recalculated after a regulatory update (can't just
recalculate after installing a new channel list because we might
clobber user settings)
o remove special case code in ieee80211_get_suprates; this is now
a candidate for an inline or removal
o add various entries for new modes (roaming+tx params, wme, rate
mapping, scan set setup, country ie construction, tdma, basic rates)

Note these modes are intentionally not visible through if_media.


# da92f159 18-Feb-2009 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

Change country ie construction to simplify forthcoming changes:
o use c99 initializer for skipflags
o calculate band flags instead of statically listing them in the table


# 24a90e6b 09-Feb-2009 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

correctly fixup iv_des_chan after installing a new channel table; if the
previous channel is now invalid we must set it to IEEE80211_CHAN_ANYC


# a6f34da7 28-Jan-2009 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

change null_getradiocaps to return the actual count of channels instead
of the true number; otherwise the caller may use the count to do things
with the data it should not (e.g. sort the channel table)


# b83f2cf3 27-Jan-2009 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

fix comment


# 5fe9f044 27-Jan-2009 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

change ic_getradiocaps driver callback to include the max # channels
so callers know the size of the array passed down


# a5985e8b 23-Jan-2009 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

fix regulatory state check for all vaps' being down; it must be done
before calling the ic_setregdomain callback


# 31378b1c 14-Dec-2008 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

Fix definition of IEEE80211_CHAN_MAX; it was defined as 255 but
really was meant to be 256. Adjust usage accordingly and replace
bogus usage of this value in checking IEEE channel #'s.

NB: this causes an ABI change; ifconfig must be recompiled


# fad0f46d 25-Oct-2008 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

add debug msgs


# d7f03759 19-Oct-2008 Ulf Lilleengen <lulf@FreeBSD.org>

- Import the HEAD csup code which is the basis for the cvsmode work.


# b032f27c 20-Apr-2008 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

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)


# 5ef9cd6c 16-Sep-2007 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

correct netband skip check in constructing a country ie

Approved by: re (blanket net80211)


# f05ba5ee 26-Aug-2007 Sepherosa Ziehau <sephe@FreeBSD.org>

Off-by-one bug in country ie construction, which will make HOSTAP send out
malformatted beacons.

Reviewed by: sam
Approved by: re (bmah), sam (mentor)


# 68e8e04e 10-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 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.