fix some more typos in comments/log messages, improve wording as well.

net80211: Initialise the interface with a decent link state.

Link state transitions to UP when a node is joined and DOWN when left.
This means that with the interface UP, the link state could be UNK

net80211: Initialise the interface with a decent link state.

Link state transitions to UP when a node is joined and DOWN when left.
This means that with the interface UP, the link state could be UNKNOWN
for a while, implying it can be used in BSS mode.
Which is of course false.

Add a function to set an initial link state based on the operating mode.
Also call this when the operating mode changes.

Basically in BSS and MONITOR it starts off down.
BSS will transition UP and DOWN as before, MONITOR will stay down.
IBSS, AHDEMO and HOSTAP will remain as link unknown because the state is
..... unknown.

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Define and implement a locking protocol for the ifmedia / mii layers:
- MP-safe drivers provide a mutex to ifmedia that is used to serialize
access to media-related structures / hardware regsiters.

Define and implement a locking protocol for the ifmedia / mii layers:
- MP-safe drivers provide a mutex to ifmedia that is used to serialize
access to media-related structures / hardware regsiters. Converted
drivers use the new ifmedia_init_with_lock() function for this. The
new name is provided to ease the transition.
- Un-converted drivers continue to call ifmedia_init(), which will supply
a compatibility lock to be used instead. Several media-related entry
points must be aware of this compatibility lock, and are able to acquire
it recursively a limited number of times, if needed. This is a SPIN
mutex with priority IPL_NET.
- This same lock is used to serialize access to PHY registers and other
MII-related data structures.

The PHY drivers are modified to acquire and release the lock, as needed,
and assert the lock is held as a diagnostic aid.

The "usbnet" framework has had an overhaul of its internal locking
protocols to fit in with the media / mii changes, and the drivers adapted.

USB wifi drivers have been changed to provide their own adaptive mutex
to the ifmedia later via a new ieee80211_media_init_with_lock() function.
This is required because the USB drivers need an adaptive mutex.

Besised "usbnet", a few other drivers are converted: vmx, wm, ixgbe / ixv.

mcx also now calls ifmedia_init_with_lock() because it needs to also use
an adaptive mutex. The mcx driver still needs to be fully converted to
NET_MPSAFE.

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Use ifmedia_fini().

ieee80211_announce: Print supported rates with aprint_debug

sprinkle _KERNEL_OPT

src is too big these days to tolerate superfluous apostrophes. It's
"its", people!

Instead of always checking for ANYC, make it a valid channel

Push the bpf_ops usage back into bpf.h. Push the common ifp->if_bpf
check into the inline functions as well the fourth argument for
bpf_attach.

Delete ieee80211_setbasicrates(). It's buggy, and we drivers can get
along fine without it.

In ieee80211_media_init(), change a pointer that we never write
through to a pointer to const.

Redefine bpf linkage through an always present op vector, i.e.
#if NBPFILTER is no longer required in the client. This change
doesn't yet add support for loading bpf as a module, since drivers
can r

Redefine bpf linkage through an always present op vector, i.e.
#if NBPFILTER is no longer required in the client. This change
doesn't yet add support for loading bpf as a module, since drivers
can register before bpf is attached. However, callers of bpf can
now be modularized.

Dynamically loadable bpf could probably be done fairly easily with
coordination from the stub driver and the real driver by registering
attachments in the stub before the real driver is loaded and doing
a handoff. ... and I'm not going to ponder the depths of unload
here.

Tested with i386/MONOLITHIC, modified MONOLITHIC without bpf and rump.

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Introduce ieee80211_setbasicrates().
Use it to set speed in ieee80211_ifattach().
Export new ieee80211_std_rateset_11{a,b,g}.

From OpenBSD.

aprintify

__unused removal on arguments; approved by core.

- sprinkle __unused on function decls.
- fix a couple of unused bugs
- no more -Wno-unused for i386

Use the SI capitalization for "Hz", "kHz", and "MHz" in comments and strings.
Add a space between numbers and Hz unit.

Miscellaneous ath(4) and net80211 updates and bug-fixes coming from
sam@ and various open source repositories:

ath(4):

Ignore "phantom" beacon misses: should stabilize connections
t

Miscellaneous ath(4) and net80211 updates and bug-fixes coming from
sam@ and various open source repositories:

ath(4):

Ignore "phantom" beacon misses: should stabilize connections
to access points (no more ceaseless link-UP/DOWN indications).
Also, re-synchronize beacon timer using the TSF in the
first beacon received after joining a BSS---this should
also help suppress spurious beacon misses. I am hopeful
that this will help ath(4) lossage reported by perry@ and
smb@.

Add new configuration through sysctl.

Use a shorter calibration interval until IQ calibration
finishes.

Report antenna noise through radiotap.

Rudiments of Radar Detection / Dynamic Frequency Selection.

Update to HAL version 0.9.16.13.

Update open sources for changes to the HAL API.

Add HALs for additional architectures: add big-endian ELF
HALs for sparc64 and for PowerPC. Also add a Alpha HAL.
These new HALs are untested under NetBSD.

ath(4) + net80211:

Make the multicast transmit rate configurable by ioctl.

Miscellaneous bug fixes.

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Fix ieee80211_media2rate to suit the funny order of NetBSD's DSSS
media flags: DS2, DS5, DS11, DS1.

Use a once control to call initialize the 802.11 layer when
ieee80211_ifattach() is called. "wlan" no longer needs-flag,
and remove the ieee80211_init() call from main().

Resolve conflicts and adapt to NetBSD.

Thanks to dyoung@, scw@, and perry@ for help testing.

2005-08-30 15:27 avatar

Properly set ic_curchan before calling back to device driver to do channel
swi

Resolve conflicts and adapt to NetBSD.

Thanks to dyoung@, scw@, and perry@ for help testing.

2005-08-30 15:27 avatar

Properly set ic_curchan before calling back to device driver to do channel
switching(ifconfig devX channel Y). This fix should make channel changing
works again in monitor mode.

Submitted by: sam
X-MFC-With: other ic_curchan changes

2005-08-13 18:50 sam

revert 1.64: we cannot use the channel characteristics to decide when to
do 11g erp sta accounting because b/g channels show up as false positives
when operating in 11b.

Noticed by: Michal Mertl

2005-08-13 18:31 sam

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

2005-08-10 18:42 sam

Don't use ic_curmode to decide when to do 11g station accounting,
use the station channel properties. Fixes assert failure/bogus
operation when an ap is operating in 11a and has associated stations
then switches to 11g.

Noticed by: Michal Mertl
Reviewed by: avatar
MFC after: 2 weeks

2005-08-10 17:22 sam

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

2005-08-09 11:19 rwatson

Propagate rename of IFF_OACTIVE and IFF_RUNNING to IFF_DRV_OACTIVE and
IFF_DRV_RUNNING, as well as the move from ifnet.if_flags to
ifnet.if_drv_flags. Device drivers are now responsible for
synchronizing access to these flags, as they are in if_drv_flags. This
helps prevent races between the network stack and device driver in
maintaining the interface flags field.

Many __FreeBSD__ and __FreeBSD_version checks maintained and continued;
some less so.

Reviewed by: pjd, bz
MFC after: 7 days

2005-08-08 19:46 sam

Split crypto tx+rx key indices and add a key index -> node mapping table:

Crypto changes:
o change driver/net80211 key_alloc api to return tx+rx key indices; a
driver can leave the rx key index set to IEEE80211_KEYIX_NONE or set
it to be the same as the tx key index (the former disables use of
the key index in building the keyix->node mapping table and is the
default setup for naive drivers by null_key_alloc)
o add cs_max_keyid to crypto state to specify the max h/w key index a
driver will return; this is used to allocate the key index mapping
table and to bounds check table loookups
o while here introduce ieee80211_keyix (finally) for the type of a h/w
key index
o change crypto notifiers for rx failures to pass the rx key index up
as appropriate (michael failure, replay, etc.)

Node table changes:
o optionally allocate a h/w key index to node mapping table for the
station table using the max key index setting supplied by drivers
(note the scan table does not get a map)
o defer node table allocation to lateattach so the driver has a chance
to set the max key id to size the key index map
o while here also defer the aid bitmap allocation
o add new ieee80211_find_rxnode_withkey api to find a sta/node entry
on frame receive with an optional h/w key index to use in checking
mapping table; also updates the map if it does a hash lookup and the
found node has a rx key index set in the unicast key; note this work
is separated from the old ieee80211_find_rxnode call so drivers do
not need to be aware of the new mechanism
o move some node table manipulation under the node table lock to close
a race on node delete
o add ieee80211_node_delucastkey to do the dirty work of deleting
unicast key state for a node (deletes any key and handles key map
references)

Ath driver:
o nuke private sc_keyixmap mechansim in favor of net80211 support
o update key alloc api

These changes close several race conditions for the ath driver operating
in ap mode. Other drivers should see no change. Station mode operation
for ath no longer uses the key index map but performance tests show no
noticeable change and this will be fixed when the scan table is eliminated
with the new scanning support.

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

2005-08-08 06:49 sam

use ieee80211_iterate_nodes to retrieve station data; the previous
code walked the list w/o locking

MFC after: 1 week

2005-08-08 04:30 sam

Cleanup beacon/listen interval handling:
o separate configured beacon interval from listen interval; this
avoids potential use of one value for the other (e.g. setting
powersavesleep to 0 clobbers the beacon interval used in hostap
or ibss mode)
o bounds check the beacon interval received in probe response and
beacon frames and drop frames with bogus settings; not clear
if we should instead clamp the value as any alteration would
result in mismatched sta+ap configuration and probably be more
confusing (don't want to log to the console but perhaps ok with
rate limiting)
o while here up max beacon interval to reflect WiFi standard

Noticed by: Martin <nakal@nurfuerspam.de>
MFC after: 1 week

2005-08-06 05:57 sam

fix debug msg typo

MFC after: 3 days

2005-08-06 05:56 sam

Fix handling of frames sent prior to a station being authorized
when operating in ap mode. Previously we allocated a node from the
station table, sent the frame (using the node), then released the
reference that "held the frame in the table". But while the frame
was in flight the node might be reclaimed which could lead to
problems. The solution is to add an ieee80211_tmp_node routine
that crafts a node that does exist in a table and so isn't ever
reclaimed; it exists only so long as the associated frame is in flight.

MFC after: 5 days

2005-07-31 07:12 sam

close a race between reclaiming a node when a station is inactive
and sending the null data frame used to probe inactive stations

MFC after: 5 days

2005-07-27 05:41 sam

when bridging internally bypass the bss node as traffic to it
must follow the normal input path

Submitted by: Michal Mertl
MFC after: 5 days

2005-07-27 03:53 sam

bandaid ni_fails handling so ap's with association failures are
reconsidered after a bit; a proper fix involves more changes to
the scanning infrastructure

Reviewed by: avatar, David Young
MFC after: 5 days

2005-07-23 01:16 sam

the AREF flag is only meaningful in ap mode; adhoc neighbors now
are timed out of the sta/neighbor table

2005-07-23 00:25 sam

o move inactivity-related debug msgs under IEEE80211_MSG_INACT
o probe inactive neighbors in adhoc mode (they don't have an
association id so previously were being timed out)

MFC after: 3 days

2005-07-22 22:11 sam

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

2005-07-22 21:48 sam

split 802.11 frame xmit setup code into ieee80211_send_setup

MFC after: 3 days

2005-07-22 18:57 sam

simplify ic_newassoc callback

MFC after: 3 days

2005-07-22 18:54 sam

simplify ieee80211_ibss_merge api

MFC after: 3 days

2005-07-22 18:50 sam

add stats we know we'll need soon and some spare fields for future expansion

MFC after: 3 days

2005-07-22 18:45 sam

simplify tim callback api

MFC after: 3 days

2005-07-22 18:42 sam

don't include 802.3 header in min frame length calculation as it may
not be present for a frag; fixes problem with small (fragmented) frames
being dropped

Obtained from: Atheros
MFC after: 3 days

2005-07-22 18:36 sam

simplify ieee80211_node_authorize and ieee80211_node_unauthorize api's

MFC after: 3 days

2005-07-22 18:31 sam

simplifiy ieee80211_send_nulldata api

MFC after: 3 days

2005-07-22 18:29 sam

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

MFC after: 3 days

2005-07-22 18:21 sam

reject association requests with a wpa/rsn ie when wpa/rsn is not
configured on the ap; previously we either ignored the ie or (possibly)
failed an assertion

Obtained from: Atheros
MFC after: 3 days

2005-07-22 18:16 sam

missed one in last commit; add device name to discard msgs

2005-07-22 18:13 sam

include device name in discard msgs

2005-07-22 18:12 sam

add diag msgs for frames discarded because the direction field is wrong

2005-07-22 18:08 sam

split data frame delivery out to a new function ieee80211_deliver_data

2005-07-22 18:00 sam

o add IEEE80211_IOC_FRAGTHRESHOLD for getting+setting the
tx fragmentation threshold
o fix bounds checking on IEEE80211_IOC_RTSTHRESHOLD

MFC after: 3 days

2005-07-22 17:55 sam

o add IEEE80211_FRAG_DEFAULT
o move default settings for RTS and frag thresholds to ieee80211_var.h

2005-07-22 17:50 sam

diff reduction against p4: define IEEE80211_FIXED_RATE_NONE and use
it instead of -1

2005-07-22 17:37 sam

add flags missed in last merge

2005-07-22 17:36 sam

Diff reduction against p4:
o add ic_flags_ext for eventual extention of ic_flags
o define/reserve flag+capabilities bits for superg,
bg scan, and roaming support
o refactor debug msg macros

MFC after: 3 days

2005-07-22 06:17 sam

send a response when an auth request is denied due to an acl;
might be better to silently ignore the frame but this way we
give stations a chance of figuring out what's wrong

2005-07-22 06:15 sam

remove excess whitespace

2005-07-22 05:55 sam

use IF_HANDOFF when bridging frames internally so if_start gets
called; fixes communication between associated sta's

MFC after: 3 days

2005-07-11 04:06 sam

Handle encrypt of arbitarily fragmented mbuf chains: previously
we bailed if we couldn't collect the 16-bytes of data required
for an aes block cipher in 2 mbufs; now we deal with it. While
here make space accounting signed so a sanity check does the
right thing for malformed mbuf chains.

Approved by: re (scottl)

2005-07-11 04:00 sam

nuke assert that duplicates real check

Reviewed by: avatar
Approved by: re (scottl)

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Resolve conflicts.

Synchronize ieee80211_find_vap, ieee80211_find_instance.

Do not build AP support if 'options IEEE80211_NO_HOSTAP'. I will
use this in the INSTALL kernel to save some space.

Resolve conflicts in importation of 18-May-2005 ath(4) / net80211(9)
from FreeBSD. Introduce compatibility shims (sys/dev/ic/ath_netbsd.[ch],
sys/net80211/ieee80211_netbsd.[ch]). Update drivers (an

Resolve conflicts in importation of 18-May-2005 ath(4) / net80211(9)
from FreeBSD. Introduce compatibility shims (sys/dev/ic/ath_netbsd.[ch],
sys/net80211/ieee80211_netbsd.[ch]). Update drivers (an, atu, atw,
awi, ipw, iwi, rtw, wi) for the new net80211(9) API.

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