I'm ok with flipping random on by default nowdays. There are bigger fish to fry in the "wasted kernel space" game.

I think this is a pretty self contained change and would like to see it land.

So in a Previous Project a Long Long Time Ago we solved this by having the receive/send state being an ifindex into an array of "ifnet" pointers, and a gencount so you can see if it's stale. Then all the code had to handle that the interface ifindex was stale (ie, a NULL pointer versus a garbage pointer) and decide at each point how to make forward progress. In some cases it wasn't needed for forward progress - eg it was already on a transmit queue, so the fact the receive interface went away wasn't a huge deal. But sometimes it was - eg tunnel (l2tp in one case) went away.

And yes I'd love for this to be addressed as a whole, but this is a pretty neat way to explicitly call out fixing up a good corner case.

*puts network engineer in the past hat on*

Yeah, we should have a fallback rate function in net80211.

Yeah please don't ifdef the structure definitions. I need to go do a pass at some point to make that not be a problem; it's 2018 :)

I was going to try and commit this to -head soon, as it's a pretty stand-alone thing. even just before -head branches.

This looks good! do you have commit privs or should I break it up into smaller pieces and commit it?

yaaaaayayaya do it~!

interesting! ok. I wonder how hard it'd be to integrate this into the existing ral driver. All of the RAL "HAL" routines right now really are almost complete drivers themselves with some shared bus management glue. HOw hard does it look to integrate it?

I think it's fine to extend it; longer SSIDs are now a thing and have been for a while.

It looks good! It'd be fun to try and RTS/CTS protect longer bursts, but that can always come later!

commit away! thanks!

commit away!

Replacing it with a placeholder bootstrap fortune shell script to retain backward compat is a smart move.

Approved.

Fix up warnings from portlint

I think alsa is fine, as pulseaudio can capture alsa sound too.

hi! thanks for this! this will be really useful!

lgtm; you don't have to ask for my permission to commit to bhnd stuff btw :)

maybe the libifconfig thing that was done recently?

have you tested this on a non-FDT MIPS board? (if not, please do get a carambola2? ;-)

yes please!

I like it!