the opportunity to handle an ioctl before generic ifioctl handling
occurs. This will ease extending the kernel and sharing of code
between drivers.
First steps: Make the signature of ifioctl_common() match struct
ifinet->if_ioctl. Convert SIOCSIFCAP and SIOCSIFMTU to the new
ifioctl() regime, throughout the kernel.
We can't use IF_PURGE here because m_pkthdr.rcvif have here a special meaning :
it holds ieee80211_node to which the management frame should be sent and the
node has its reference count bumped.
Introduce ieee80211_drain_ifq which release the node before freeing the mbuf.
Use it instead of IF_PURGE.
From DragonflyBSD
access point in the neighbourhood).
Complete list of channel attributes and list of management information element
payload.
While here, use estrlcpy instead of strncpy.
From FreeBSD ifconfig and net80211
compatibility with the older ioctls. This avoids stack smashing and
abuse of "struct sockaddr" when ioctls placed "struct sockaddr_foo's" that
were longer than "struct sockaddr".
XXX: Some of the emulations might be broken; I tried to add code for
them but I did not test them.
Leffler, and others:
IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_RX_FLAGS = 14,
IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_TX_FLAGS = 15,
IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_RTS_RETRIES = 16,
IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_DATA_RETRIES = 17,
I describe the fields in the manual page and in comments in the
header file (cross-referenced by the manual page).
wireless NICs need the host's help to fragment packets before the
NIC transmits them. From Sam Leffler.
Screen-scraped by me from the WWW source browser at perforce.freebsd.org.
alignment. This
1 helps GCC make better code for architectures such as ARM
where it would otherwise do a lot of byte-loads and shifts
to load a multi-byte word, and
2 ensures that the compiler will add no padding between a
radiotap header and a 64-bit or narrower field that
follows it.
[correct would have been howmany(...), use IEEE80211_CHAN_BYTES,
which is used in the other ioctl method. While here s/u_char/u_int8_t/
for chanlist to match the rest of the uses.
ic->ic_bss, but it uses the rateset in its new ieee80211_node
argument, instead. If the rate is fixed by ic->ic_fixed_rate, but
the fixed rate is not in the node's rateset, choose a reasonable
default: prefer the lowest basic rate or, if there is no basic
rate, prefer the lowest rate, period.
Change a printf complaint to a debug message.
Adapt drivers to suit new ieee80211_get_rate calling convention.
XXX I really need to replace ieee80211_get_rate with a bitrate
XXX adaptation algorithm. Soon, soon....
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.
