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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>2020-04-30 18:04:20 +0200
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- add SPDX header; - adjust title markup; - mark code blocks and literals as such; - adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines where needed; - add to networking/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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-Linux wireless regulatory documentation
----------------------------------------
-
-This document gives a brief review over how the Linux wireless
-regulatory infrastructure works.
-
-More up to date information can be obtained at the project's web page:
-
-http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Regulatory
-
-Keeping regulatory domains in userspace
----------------------------------------
-
-Due to the dynamic nature of regulatory domains we keep them
-in userspace and provide a framework for userspace to upload
-to the kernel one regulatory domain to be used as the central
-core regulatory domain all wireless devices should adhere to.
-
-How to get regulatory domains to the kernel
--------------------------------------------
-
-When the regulatory domain is first set up, the kernel will request a
-database file (regulatory.db) containing all the regulatory rules. It
-will then use that database when it needs to look up the rules for a
-given country.
-
-How to get regulatory domains to the kernel (old CRDA solution)
----------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Userspace gets a regulatory domain in the kernel by having
-a userspace agent build it and send it via nl80211. Only
-expected regulatory domains will be respected by the kernel.
-
-A currently available userspace agent which can accomplish this
-is CRDA - central regulatory domain agent. Its documented here:
-
-http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Regulatory/CRDA
-
-Essentially the kernel will send a udev event when it knows
-it needs a new regulatory domain. A udev rule can be put in place
-to trigger crda to send the respective regulatory domain for a
-specific ISO/IEC 3166 alpha2.
-
-Below is an example udev rule which can be used:
-
-# Example file, should be put in /etc/udev/rules.d/regulatory.rules
-KERNEL=="regulatory*", ACTION=="change", SUBSYSTEM=="platform", RUN+="/sbin/crda"
-
-The alpha2 is passed as an environment variable under the variable COUNTRY.
-
-Who asks for regulatory domains?
---------------------------------
-
-* Users
-
-Users can use iw:
-
-http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/iw
-
-An example:
-
- # set regulatory domain to "Costa Rica"
- iw reg set CR
-
-This will request the kernel to set the regulatory domain to
-the specificied alpha2. The kernel in turn will then ask userspace
-to provide a regulatory domain for the alpha2 specified by the user
-by sending a uevent.
-
-* Wireless subsystems for Country Information elements
-
-The kernel will send a uevent to inform userspace a new
-regulatory domain is required. More on this to be added
-as its integration is added.
-
-* Drivers
-
-If drivers determine they need a specific regulatory domain
-set they can inform the wireless core using regulatory_hint().
-They have two options -- they either provide an alpha2 so that
-crda can provide back a regulatory domain for that country or
-they can build their own regulatory domain based on internal
-custom knowledge so the wireless core can respect it.
-
-*Most* drivers will rely on the first mechanism of providing a
-regulatory hint with an alpha2. For these drivers there is an additional
-check that can be used to ensure compliance based on custom EEPROM
-regulatory data. This additional check can be used by drivers by
-registering on its struct wiphy a reg_notifier() callback. This notifier
-is called when the core's regulatory domain has been changed. The driver
-can use this to review the changes made and also review who made them
-(driver, user, country IE) and determine what to allow based on its
-internal EEPROM data. Devices drivers wishing to be capable of world
-roaming should use this callback. More on world roaming will be
-added to this document when its support is enabled.
-
-Device drivers who provide their own built regulatory domain
-do not need a callback as the channels registered by them are
-the only ones that will be allowed and therefore *additional*
-channels cannot be enabled.
-
-Example code - drivers hinting an alpha2:
-------------------------------------------
-
-This example comes from the zd1211rw device driver. You can start
-by having a mapping of your device's EEPROM country/regulatory
-domain value to a specific alpha2 as follows:
-
-static struct zd_reg_alpha2_map reg_alpha2_map[] = {
- { ZD_REGDOMAIN_FCC, "US" },
- { ZD_REGDOMAIN_IC, "CA" },
- { ZD_REGDOMAIN_ETSI, "DE" }, /* Generic ETSI, use most restrictive */
- { ZD_REGDOMAIN_JAPAN, "JP" },
- { ZD_REGDOMAIN_JAPAN_ADD, "JP" },
- { ZD_REGDOMAIN_SPAIN, "ES" },
- { ZD_REGDOMAIN_FRANCE, "FR" },
-
-Then you can define a routine to map your read EEPROM value to an alpha2,
-as follows:
-
-static int zd_reg2alpha2(u8 regdomain, char *alpha2)
-{
- unsigned int i;
- struct zd_reg_alpha2_map *reg_map;
- for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(reg_alpha2_map); i++) {
- reg_map = &reg_alpha2_map[i];
- if (regdomain == reg_map->reg) {
- alpha2[0] = reg_map->alpha2[0];
- alpha2[1] = reg_map->alpha2[1];
- return 0;
- }
- }
- return 1;
-}
-
-Lastly, you can then hint to the core of your discovered alpha2, if a match
-was found. You need to do this after you have registered your wiphy. You
-are expected to do this during initialization.
-
- r = zd_reg2alpha2(mac->regdomain, alpha2);
- if (!r)
- regulatory_hint(hw->wiphy, alpha2);
-
-Example code - drivers providing a built in regulatory domain:
---------------------------------------------------------------
-
-[NOTE: This API is not currently available, it can be added when required]
-
-If you have regulatory information you can obtain from your
-driver and you *need* to use this we let you build a regulatory domain
-structure and pass it to the wireless core. To do this you should
-kmalloc() a structure big enough to hold your regulatory domain
-structure and you should then fill it with your data. Finally you simply
-call regulatory_hint() with the regulatory domain structure in it.
-
-Bellow is a simple example, with a regulatory domain cached using the stack.
-Your implementation may vary (read EEPROM cache instead, for example).
-
-Example cache of some regulatory domain
-
-struct ieee80211_regdomain mydriver_jp_regdom = {
- .n_reg_rules = 3,
- .alpha2 = "JP",
- //.alpha2 = "99", /* If I have no alpha2 to map it to */
- .reg_rules = {
- /* IEEE 802.11b/g, channels 1..14 */
- REG_RULE(2412-10, 2484+10, 40, 6, 20, 0),
- /* IEEE 802.11a, channels 34..48 */
- REG_RULE(5170-10, 5240+10, 40, 6, 20,
- NL80211_RRF_NO_IR),
- /* IEEE 802.11a, channels 52..64 */
- REG_RULE(5260-10, 5320+10, 40, 6, 20,
- NL80211_RRF_NO_IR|
- NL80211_RRF_DFS),
- }
-};
-
-Then in some part of your code after your wiphy has been registered:
-
- struct ieee80211_regdomain *rd;
- int size_of_regd;
- int num_rules = mydriver_jp_regdom.n_reg_rules;
- unsigned int i;
-
- size_of_regd = sizeof(struct ieee80211_regdomain) +
- (num_rules * sizeof(struct ieee80211_reg_rule));
-
- rd = kzalloc(size_of_regd, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!rd)
- return -ENOMEM;
-
- memcpy(rd, &mydriver_jp_regdom, sizeof(struct ieee80211_regdomain));
-
- for (i=0; i < num_rules; i++)
- memcpy(&rd->reg_rules[i],
- &mydriver_jp_regdom.reg_rules[i],
- sizeof(struct ieee80211_reg_rule));
- regulatory_struct_hint(rd);
-
-Statically compiled regulatory database
----------------------------------------
-
-When a database should be fixed into the kernel, it can be provided as a
-firmware file at build time that is then linked into the kernel.