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Re: [PATCH 05/10] cfg80211: add regulatory_hint_core() to separate the core reg hint

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On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 00:14 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 2:59 AM, Johannes Berg
> <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 21:33 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> >> This will allow us to clean up and make distinctions of who
> >> needs locking or not.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >>  net/wireless/reg.c |   36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
> >>  1 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/net/wireless/reg.c b/net/wireless/reg.c
> >> index ba82312..679fded 100644
> >> --- a/net/wireless/reg.c
> >> +++ b/net/wireless/reg.c
> >> @@ -1050,11 +1050,7 @@ static int ignore_request(struct wiphy *wiphy, enum reg_set_by set_by,
> >>       case REGDOM_SET_BY_INIT:
> >>               return -EINVAL;
> >>       case REGDOM_SET_BY_CORE:
> >> -             /*
> >> -              * Always respect new wireless core hints, should only happen
> >> -              * when updating the world regulatory domain at init.
> >> -              */
> >> -             return 0;
> >> +             return -EINVAL;
> >>       case REGDOM_SET_BY_COUNTRY_IE:
> >>               if (unlikely(!is_an_alpha2(alpha2)))
> >>                       return -EINVAL;
> >> @@ -1183,6 +1179,26 @@ new_request:
> >>       return call_crda(alpha2);
> >>  }
> >>
> >> +static int regulatory_hint_core(const char *alpha2)
> >> +{
> >> +     struct regulatory_request *request;
> >> +
> >> +     BUG_ON(last_request);
> >> +
> >> +     request = kzalloc(sizeof(struct regulatory_request),
> >> +                       GFP_KERNEL);
> >> +     if (!request)
> >> +             return -ENOMEM;
> >> +
> >> +     request->alpha2[0] = alpha2[0];
> >> +     request->alpha2[1] = alpha2[1];
> >> +     request->initiator = REGDOM_SET_BY_CORE;
> >> +
> >> +     last_request = request;
> >
> > So before you documented that cfg80211_mutex is used to protect this
> > variable, but it's not used here.
> 
> This is only used during initialization, have any better ideas?

If regulatory is initialised before netlink that is probably fine, is
it?

johannes

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