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On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 9:28 PM, Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 03/18/15 20:18, Johannes Berg wrote:
>>
>> Hi Arend,
>>
>>> Is it ok to update the wiphy band information after registration.
>>
>>
>> I believe this will cause issues.
>>
>>> In
>>> brcmfmac the firmware is queried to obtain the supported channels.
>>> However, it returns the channels for the current country set in
>>> firmware. So after probe/registration iw shows:
>>
>>
>>> Looks fine apart from the power levels so it made me wonder if what I am
>>> doing is allowed. Any opinion on this?
>>
>>
>> I think the regulatory flags will also break, since some are
>> pre-processed during wiphy registration.
>>
>>> I assume the supported band info is intended to show what hardware can
>>> do regardless of the configured country, but I have no way to pull that
>>> info from the device.
>>
>>
>> I'd recommend finding (and hard-coding) a superset of all the channels
>> that the hardware could supported, and then dynamically setting the
>> disabled flag on those channels that the (current) regulatory
>> information cannot do.
>
>
> Depending on your reply that was the plan.

btw, this is what's done in iwlwifi (iwlmvm) - all supported channels
are registered with regulatory flags=0. Later on when specific
countries are set, some channels are disabled/limited.

Arik
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