From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 1 18:01:14 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 162D4557; Mon, 1 Jun 2015 18:01:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from che@bein.link) Received: from mail.bein.link (bein.link [37.252.124.82]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D0668197B; Mon, 1 Jun 2015 18:01:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from che@bein.link) Received: from thinkpad.localnet (home.bein.link [188.134.8.193]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.bein.link (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 729221AF1D1; Mon, 1 Jun 2015 18:01:02 +0000 (UTC) From: Maxim V Filimonov To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Reply-To: che@bein.link Cc: Gleb Smirnoff , current@freebsd.org, net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Testers needed!] WiFi drivers changes Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 21:01:01 +0300 Message-ID: <3365697.2qFDXoZ9ho@thinkpad> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.3 (FreeBSD/10.1-RELEASE-p10; KDE/4.14.3; amd64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20150529133535.GT73119@glebius.int.ru> References: <20150529133535.GT73119@glebius.int.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 18:01:14 -0000 On Friday 29 May 2015 16:35:35 Gleb Smirnoff wrote: > Hi! > > As part of the "opaque ifnet project" [1], we are doing some code shake > with all IEEE802.11 (read WiFi) drivers. The drivers, that provide a parent > interface for the wlan(4) interface. > > The core idea is that parent device loses its ifnet(9) structure. The > code is already complete for the stack, but only 2 drivers are converted > to new KPI: iwn(4) and bwi(4). We got 22 more drivers left. The changes > are quite mechanical, but nevertheless testing is required before > committing. > > So, if you run FreeBSD head and wlan(4), please sign up here as tester: > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/projects/ifnet/net80211 > Did I get it correctly that you don't need tests for iwn(4)? -- wbr, Maxim Filimonov