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Re: [PATCH 2/2] brcmfmac: setup wiphy bands after registering it first

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On 8 January 2017 at 14:00, Arend Van Spriel
<arend.vanspriel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 7-1-2017 21:36, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> During bands setup we disable all channels that firmware doesn't support
>> in the current regulatory setup. If we do this before wiphy_register
>> it will result in copying set flags (including IEEE80211_CHAN_DISABLED)
>> to the orig_flags which is supposed to be persistent. We don't want this
>> as regulatory change may result in enabling some channels. We shouldn't
>> mess with orig_flags then (by changing them or ignoring them) so it's
>> better to just take care of their proper values.
>>
>> This patch cleanups code a bit (by taking orig_flags more seriously) and
>> allows further improvements like disabling really unavailable channels.
>> We will need that e.g. if some frequencies should be disabled for good
>> due to hardware setup (design).
>
> I think this and previous patch are too dependent and prefer to have
> them in a single patch. Despite that for both:
>
> Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

This time to make sure I can be easily understood I decided to use two
smaller patches & describe each of them with all the details that came
to my mind. I also made sure (and described that) that applying only
1/2 won't break anything (we never wan't to break potential bisecting
process).

I can work on merging (squashing) these 2 patches but then I need to
rework commit messages & I'll risk someone will say my description
isn't clear enough or my patch is too complex...

If there isn't a real problem (and maybe having 2 patches makes
following changes more easily) maybe let's stick to this patchset?

-- 
Rafał




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