FreeBSD git weekly: 2026-05-25 to 2026-05-31

Introduction

This is a display of mostly-automatically-classified git commits from 2026-05-25 to 2026-05-31.

This report is still in progress.

Table of contents and commits per category:

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For extra visibility, these are copies of commits found in other sections. Most (if not all) come from the commit message containing "Relnotes:", or commits modifying UPDATING.

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Userland programs Expand section Collapse section

Commits about commands found in man section 1 (other than networking).

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Documentation Expand section Collapse section

Man pages, release notes, etc.

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Hardware support Expand section Collapse section

Hardware drivers and architecture-specific code.

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Networking Expand section Collapse section

Network-related commands, library, and kernel.

net80211: add some example doxygen inline documents

This isn't supposed to be comprehensive, I want to have examples
for the common doxygen comments:

* describing a struct
* inside a struct - single line before the item
* inside a struct - same line after an item
* inside a struct - multi-line before an item

These build fine with the doxygen build in tools/kerneldoc/subsys/ .

Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D57056

net80211: update/add some VHT doxygen documentation

Add and update some documentation to be picked up by doxygen.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D57079

net80211: add initial README.md and PROTOCOL.md

* Add top level README.md, linking to in progress and todo items
* Add an 802.11 protocol overview, with todo items - this is designed
  to provide a basic introduction to 802.11 for people wishing to work
  on net80211 and drivers.
* DEBUG.md - cover the debug API
* DATAPATH_TRANSMIT.md - transmit datapath
* DATAPATH_RECEIVE.md - receive datapath
* PROTOCOL.md - a high level (for values of "high") overview of
  the 802.11 protocol and where it intersects with net80211

Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56760

System administration Expand section Collapse section

Stuff in man section 8 (other than networking).

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Libraries Expand section Collapse section

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Filesystems Expand section Collapse section

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Kernel Expand section Collapse section

Kernel stuff (other than networking, filesystems, and drivers).

Create a function to check if the BAR retry limit has been reached.
Use this in if_ath_tx instead of a hard-coded value.

I've been meaning to do this for a long time.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D57055

Build system Expand section Collapse section

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Internal organizational stuff Expand section Collapse section

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Testing Expand section Collapse section

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Style, typos, and comments Expand section Collapse section

These could go in other categories, but it's more clear if they're here instead.

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Contrib code Expand section Collapse section

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Reverted commits Expand section Collapse section

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Unclassified commits Expand section Collapse section

Not classified automatically, and waiting for manual attention.

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Technical notes

Dates:

• The dates are "approximate" because git has no record of exactly when each commit was added. The "author date" and "commit date" are text fields controlled by each committer, not the actual date the commit reaches cgit.freebsd.org/src. Git accurately records the order of commits, but not their dates.

Automatic grouping:

• "Commit & revert pair" groups were automatically grouped when a commit's (full) message contained

  This reverts commit \\b([0-9a-fA-F]{40})\\b

  and the hash was found in this week's commits.
• "Commit group #" groups were automatically grouped when 3 or more consecutive commits by the same author had the same category and summary prefix.

Automatic categories:

• Commits were (mostly) automatically classified based on regex pattern-matching on the commit's modified files, summary, or the whole commit message. The goal is to have the system automatically classify 95% of the commits, with 95% accuracy; then we'll manually check the results and fix the incorrectly-classified and unclassified commits.

Source code:

• https://github.com/Tarsnap/freebsd-git-weekly