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Re: [PATCH v3] cfg80211: processing regulatory requests on netdev notifier

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On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 12:38 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> This adds a trigger to review any pending regulatory
> requests whenever an 802.11 device interface is brought
> down or up. We use this as an opportunistic trigger
> for checking the regulatory work queues as otherwise
> they they're only checked upon an initial regulatory
> request or when beacon hints are found.
> 
> This opportunistic mechanism can be used to trigger
> kicking the queues regulatory queues at any time from
> userspace without having to change the regulatory state.
> 
> A timer just waiting upon init is not that appropriate
> as when it should be triggered will depend on systems,
> a much better approach is to use and add opportunistic
> triggers. The interface coming up is typically a good
> indicator that filesystems have been mounted since
> firmware is required for some devices.

I still don't like it. You have a problem in the regulatory code and
work around it by hooking into random parts of the other code - can't
you fix it properly in the regulatory code?

johannes

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