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<title>src/sys/dev/ath/if_ath_debug.h, branch releng/14.2</title>
<subtitle>FreeBSD source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>sys: Remove $FreeBSD$: two-line .h pattern</title>
<updated>2023-08-16T17:54:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Warner Losh</name>
<email>imp@FreeBSD.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-16T17:54:11+00:00</published>
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Remove /^\s*\*\n \*\s+\$FreeBSD\$$\n/
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Remove /^\s*\*\n \*\s+\$FreeBSD\$$\n/
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>spdx: The BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier is obsolete, drop -FreeBSD</title>
<updated>2023-05-12T16:44:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Warner Losh</name>
<email>imp@FreeBSD.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-10T15:40:58+00:00</published>
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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
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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
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sys/dev: further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags.</title>
<updated>2017-11-27T14:52:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pedro F. Giffuni</name>
<email>pfg@FreeBSD.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-27T14:52:40+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=718cf2ccb9956613756ab15d7a0e28f2c8e91cab'/>
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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.
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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.
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[ath] sigh, how'd I miss this.</title>
<updated>2017-02-10T07:16:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adrian Chadd</name>
<email>adrian@FreeBSD.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-10T07:16:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=e2cf2aa54d491f6264be02cd8f53a85fc4fbe1f3'/>
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<pre>
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[ath] add BTCOEX debug section; modify DPRINTF() to take a no-arg format string.</title>
<updated>2016-05-31T04:09:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adrian Chadd</name>
<email>adrian@FreeBSD.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-31T04:09:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=ee1623827e580adb0387320157ee6032a53d0db1'/>
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Tested:

* QCA9565, STA mode
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Tested:

* QCA9565, STA mode
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Replay r286410. Change KPI of how device drivers that provide wireless</title>
<updated>2015-08-27T08:56:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gleb Smirnoff</name>
<email>glebius@FreeBSD.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-27T08:56:39+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=7a79cebfbac5e1de4648e0385b828bd161e05874'/>
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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.
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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.
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert the wifi ifnet changes until things are more baked and tested.</title>
<updated>2015-08-08T01:10:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adrian Chadd</name>
<email>adrian@FreeBSD.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-08T01:10:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=ba2c1fbc03f312b978f76f7b6c67eec6afa80bf8'/>
<id>ba2c1fbc03f312b978f76f7b6c67eec6afa80bf8</id>
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* 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.
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* 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.
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Change KPI of how device drivers that provide wireless connectivity interact</title>
<updated>2015-08-07T11:43:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gleb Smirnoff</name>
<email>glebius@FreeBSD.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-07T11:43:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=79d2c5e8574c155e3e247a52eddeda3521c7d46b'/>
<id>79d2c5e8574c155e3e247a52eddeda3521c7d46b</id>
<content type='text'>
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
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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
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Bring over some initial power save management support, reset path</title>
<updated>2014-04-30T02:19:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adrian Chadd</name>
<email>adrian@FreeBSD.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-30T02:19:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=f5c30c4e8d145f673a4a385713476cb2612ede87'/>
<id>f5c30c4e8d145f673a4a385713476cb2612ede87</id>
<content type='text'>
fixes and beacon programming / debugging into the ath(4) driver.

The basic power save tracking:

* Add some new code to track the current desired powersave state; and
* Add some reference count tracking so we know when the NIC is awake; then
* Add code in all the points where we're about to touch the hardware and
  push it to force-wake.

Then, how things are moved into power save:

* Only move into network-sleep during a RUN-&gt;SLEEP transition;
* Force wake the hardware up everywhere that we're about to touch
  the hardware.

The net80211 stack takes care of doing RUN&lt;-&gt;SLEEP&lt;-&gt;(other) state
transitions so we don't have to do it in the driver.

Next, when to wake things up:

* In short - everywhere we touch the hardware.
* The hardware will take care of staying awake if things are queued
  in the transmit queue(s); it'll then transit down to sleep if
  there's nothing left.  This way we don't have to track the
  software / hardware transmit queue(s) and keep the hardware
  awake for those.

Then, some transmit path fixes that aren't related but useful:

* Force EAPOL frames to go out at the lowest rate.  This improves
  reliability during the encryption handshake after 802.11
  negotiation.

Next, some reset path fixes!

* Fix the overlap between reset and transmit pause so we don't
  transmit frames during a reset.
* Some noisy environments will end up taking a lot longer to reset
  than normal, so extend the reset period and drop the raise the
  reset interval to be more realistic and give the hardware some
  time to finish calibration.
* Skip calibration during the reset path.  Tsk!

Then, beacon fixes in station mode!

* Add a _lot_ more debugging in the station beacon reset path.
  This is all quite fluid right now.
* Modify the STA beacon programming code to try and take
  the TU gap between desired TSF and the target TU into
  account.  (Lifted from QCA.)

Tested:

* AR5210
* AR5211
* AR5212
* AR5413
* AR5416
* AR9280
* AR9285

TODO:

* More AP, IBSS, mesh, TDMA testing
* Thorough AR9380 and later testing!
* AR9160 and AR9287 testing

Obtained from:	QCA
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fixes and beacon programming / debugging into the ath(4) driver.

The basic power save tracking:

* Add some new code to track the current desired powersave state; and
* Add some reference count tracking so we know when the NIC is awake; then
* Add code in all the points where we're about to touch the hardware and
  push it to force-wake.

Then, how things are moved into power save:

* Only move into network-sleep during a RUN-&gt;SLEEP transition;
* Force wake the hardware up everywhere that we're about to touch
  the hardware.

The net80211 stack takes care of doing RUN&lt;-&gt;SLEEP&lt;-&gt;(other) state
transitions so we don't have to do it in the driver.

Next, when to wake things up:

* In short - everywhere we touch the hardware.
* The hardware will take care of staying awake if things are queued
  in the transmit queue(s); it'll then transit down to sleep if
  there's nothing left.  This way we don't have to track the
  software / hardware transmit queue(s) and keep the hardware
  awake for those.

Then, some transmit path fixes that aren't related but useful:

* Force EAPOL frames to go out at the lowest rate.  This improves
  reliability during the encryption handshake after 802.11
  negotiation.

Next, some reset path fixes!

* Fix the overlap between reset and transmit pause so we don't
  transmit frames during a reset.
* Some noisy environments will end up taking a lot longer to reset
  than normal, so extend the reset period and drop the raise the
  reset interval to be more realistic and give the hardware some
  time to finish calibration.
* Skip calibration during the reset path.  Tsk!

Then, beacon fixes in station mode!

* Add a _lot_ more debugging in the station beacon reset path.
  This is all quite fluid right now.
* Modify the STA beacon programming code to try and take
  the TU gap between desired TSF and the target TU into
  account.  (Lifted from QCA.)

Tested:

* AR5210
* AR5211
* AR5212
* AR5413
* AR5416
* AR9280
* AR9285

TODO:

* More AP, IBSS, mesh, TDMA testing
* Thorough AR9380 and later testing!
* AR9160 and AR9287 testing

Obtained from:	QCA
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Migrate the LNA mixing diversity machinery from the AR9285 HAL to the driver.</title>
<updated>2013-06-12T14:52:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adrian Chadd</name>
<email>adrian@FreeBSD.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-12T14:52:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=216ca2346fff3a53770769146cf8a59a3f8c7b95'/>
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<content type='text'>
The AR9485 chip and AR933x SoC both implement LNA diversity.
There are a few extra things that need to happen before this can be
flipped on for those chips (mostly to do with setting up the different
bias values and LNA1/LNA2 RSSI differences) but the first stage is
putting this code into the driver layer so it can be reused.

This has the added benefit of making it easier to expose configuration
options and diagnostic information via the ioctl API.  That's not yet
being done but it sure would be nice to do so.

Tested:

* AR9285, with LNA diversity enabled
* AR9285, with LNA diversity disabled in EEPROM
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The AR9485 chip and AR933x SoC both implement LNA diversity.
There are a few extra things that need to happen before this can be
flipped on for those chips (mostly to do with setting up the different
bias values and LNA1/LNA2 RSSI differences) but the first stage is
putting this code into the driver layer so it can be reused.

This has the added benefit of making it easier to expose configuration
options and diagnostic information via the ioctl API.  That's not yet
being done but it sure would be nice to do so.

Tested:

* AR9285, with LNA diversity enabled
* AR9285, with LNA diversity disabled in EEPROM
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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