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Re: [PATCH 4/5] cfg80211: accept world/same regdom from driver/user hints

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On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
<mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 08:14:43PM +0300, Arik Nemtsov wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 2:34 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez
>> <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 11:55 PM, Arik Nemtsov <arik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> Allow driver and user hints to set the "world" regulatory domain,
>> >
>> > NACK - as expressed in the other patch, letting the drivers to use the
>> > new API to set the world regulatory domain doesn't make sense as we
>> > have custom apply stuff, and the world regulatory domain is not
>> > something dynamic.
>>
>> Well we want to set the world regdomain from FW. This obviously
>> happens after wiphy registration, so I don't think the custom apply
>> can be used here? (since we generally want cfg80211 to own the
>> regdomain settings).
>
> Can the driver not obtain the world regulatory domain from firmware
> prior to wiphy registration? Why not?

Since the FW is not running yet :)

>
> One thing to be careful on all this new API design is to ensure that
> upon disconnect we want the driver to go back to the original state,
> whatever that is.

This particular part is unrelated to connection state AFAICT. It just
allows someone (driver, user) to set the "00" regdomain.

Arik
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