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Re: [PATCH 3/5] cfg80211: treat the special "unknown" alpha2 as valid

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On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 09:09:41AM +0300, Arik Nemtsov wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
> <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Arik Nemtsov <arik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> modifieres for user_reg_hint_type, you'd want a driver_reg_hint_type,
> >
> > Minor note, since the driver reg hint type can be require the
> > regulatory data source to be internal to the driver (firmware or
> > driver, we won't know) and since the new API can allow the
> > driver/firmware to pass and let the request come from CRDA /
> > wireless-regdb / internal db the driver hint is different from the
> > final *set* regulatory domain. So for example although the goal was to
> > query firmware first if the driver passed and let the source of
> > regulatory data come from CRDA / wireless-regdb / internal regdb we'd
> > want to ensure userspace is informed of this. So I think we'd need a
> > regulatory data structure source type as well, right now it'd default
> > to wireless-regdb as the source (that would suffice for CRDA or
> > internal-db), and your changes would add an internal-driver source.
> 
> Sure I can add a source to the regulatory_request structure. It will
> have something like CORE, CRDA, INTERNAL_REGDB, DRIVER.

OK.

> > Since this is allowing drivers to be explicit about their regulatory
> > data it would be nice if as part of this we can then get 'iw reg get'
> > the ability to then spit out per wiphy regd. Since even the custom
> > regd requires passing a custom regd this could even enable parsing
> > that data as well. This should make trouble shooting for intersections
> > much easier on complex systems.
> 
> This would have to wait a bit on my side.

OK.

  Luis
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