On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 07:35 +0200, Luciano Coelho wrote: > On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 23:32 +0200, Arik Nemtsov wrote: > > I'm also not sure that having cfg80211 change a structure allocated > > and owned by the driver is the cleanest solution for the regulatory > > stuff. > > Yeah, but it has always been like that. I think the idea is probably > the same: to avoid duplicate arrays. But if cfg80211 modifies it, it > should be able to reset it back to the original as well. Or the driver > must alloc a new one each time. > > I wonder what the other drivers do... I had a quick look and it seems that iwlwifi has the channels struct in eeprom, so it needs a copy anyway; ath9k seems to make a copy of the struct before passing it to cfg80211; and ath5k seems to auto-generate the list using different sources as input. -- Luca. -- 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
