This was inherited from iwlwifi, which drives devices supported by both
iwn(4) and iwm(4) in FreeBSD. In iwm(4) _mvm is meaningless, so remove
it. OpenBSD made the same change a long time ago. No functional change
intended.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
* Rename some structs and struct members for firmware handling.
Submitted by: Augustin Cavalier <waddlesplash@gmail.com> (Haiku)
Obtained from: DragonFlyBSD (4b1006a6e4d0f61d48c67b46e1f791e30837db67)
* Limiting the channel list with "ifconfig wlan0 chanlist ..." now will
actually set the list of channels scanned by iwm.
Tested:
* Intel 7260, STA mode, setting chanlist to 1-14 and 36-254, and indeed it does what
it should!
It turns out the /next/ dragonflybsd git actually uses the scan channel list,
so just kick this along to make the next commit easier.
Obtained from: dragonflybsd.git 53a009d6f66108b40d622ed90ea95eba5c0e5432
From the original commit:
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* Actually look at the first channel in the list. If it's a 2.4GHz channel,
set IWM_PHY_BAND_24 flag. The IWM_PHY_BAND_5 flag is 0 anyway, so we
don't need to look further.
* While there factor out the iwm_mvm_rrm_scan_needed() tlv capability check.
Taken-From: Linux iwlwifi
==
However, this only really does the latter. The sc_ic channel list isn't the
scan channel list, it's the /whole list/ for the set of active channels,
so I don't know what the right thing to do is here.
So I'll commit this as an intermediary commit and we'll have to revisit whether
to finish the refactor as-is.
Tested:
* Intel 7260, STA mode
Obtained from: dragonflybsd.git 53a009d6f66108b40d622ed90ea95eba5c0e5432
This can significantly reduce scan duration thus saving time and power.
EBS failure reported by FW disables EBS for current connection. It is
re-enabled upon new connection attempt on any WLAN interface.
Obtained from: dragonflybsd.git 89f579e9823a5c446ca172cf82bbc210d6a054a4
* Uses the notification wait api to wait for the corresponding scan
complete notification after sending the abort command.
Taken-From: Linux iwlwifi
Obtained from: DragonflyBSD commit b484d09d54301740f036ddf02008117f563960c2
* This fixes the phy_cfg field sent in the iwm_send_phy_cfg_cmd()
command, which wasn't taking into account the valid_rx_ant and
valid_tx_ant masks from nvm_data before.
Tested:
* 7260, STA mode, 2G and 5G
Obtained from: DragonflyBSD commit cbb82693c18fd71b4eb86855b82d03995f352d65
* sc->sc_nvm becomes sc->nvm_data and is now a pointer instead of an
inlined struct.
* Add sc->eeprom_size and sc->nvm_hw_section_num configuration values to
struct iwm_softc.
* For now continue to avoid negative error return-values, and use pointer
variables for some return values, as before.
* Continue to omit LAR (location aware regulatory) related code as well.
Tested:
* Intel 7260, STA mode (2GHz)
Obtained from: dragonflybsd commit 39f8331b1a6f295291e08c377da12a8e7a5436c0
ic_macaddr is only used for the initial mac address provided by NVM. We should
rather use vap->iv_myaddr when vap != NULL, to allow the MAC address
to be changed later with ifconfig(8).
Submitted by: Imre Vadasz <imre@vdsz.com>
Reviewed by: avos
Approved by: re (gjb)
Obtained from: DragonflyBSD git 4aee7a78275676d22d14c04177bd0c9377d91478
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6743
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.
There are still several bugs, but I've been using it for a while now.
Thanks to all the testers and to Adrian for his help with this
driver.
This driver isn't connected to the build yet, but it will be soon.
There's no MFC planned because the driver isn't very stable yet.
Reviewed by: adrian
Obtained from: https://github.com/rpaulo/iwm
Tested by: adrian, gjb, dumbbell (others that I forgot).
Relnotes: yes
