The first patch in this series still needs some work as noted by Rajkumar Manoharan, but it also made me think more how we are applying power setting and regulatory settings. Turns out that the reason why the power settings will take effect *soonish* is that we do things like scanning, and other hardware operations that trigger applying the settings to hardware. But -- if we want to be even more efficient we may want to apply the power settings.. say from the country IE if we are allowed for more power ASAP. The gain is small though.. but this series adds some junk to where I think we'd need to apply settings and here's one way of doing it. I am not a fan of it but its one way of doing it. Not sure if we have alternatives. Apart from power settings consider the different types of channe types and if for whatever reason a new channel type that we are on gets disabled. I don't think this is gong to happen... because considering that if you connect to an AP -- chances are it is allowed to use that channel on the same channel type you associated to it with :) The only use case would be if the user manually set the regulatory domain to override and help compliance. OK I'm inclined to leave this as-is without all this junk code. But will send out just as a brain excercise and to see if anyone else has some thoughts. If we are fine living with the power settings from the country IE not taking effect immediatley then great.. otherwise we need something like this. The other thing that I'm not too happy about is the usage of NL80211_TX_POWER_REG as API and userspace would simply ignore that -- unless I guesss we send that as an event? I can't find a better place for this though. Luis R. Rodriguez (5): cfg80211: allow following country IE power for custom regdom cards cfg80211: add support to immediately apply reg settings mac80211: add support for NL80211_TX_POWER_REG ath6kl: add support for NL80211_TX_POWER_REG wireless: annotate drivers that do not support NL80211_TX_POWER_REG drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/cfg80211.c | 6 ++++ .../net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c | 2 + drivers/net/wireless/iwmc3200wifi/cfg80211.c | 2 + drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c | 3 ++ include/linux/nl80211.h | 4 +++ include/net/cfg80211.h | 4 ++- net/mac80211/cfg.c | 6 ++++ net/wireless/core.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++ net/wireless/core.h | 2 + net/wireless/nl80211.c | 5 +++ net/wireless/reg.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++--- 11 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) -- 1.7.4.15.g7811d -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
