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authorJonathan Doron <jond@wizery.com>2014-12-15 18:26:00 +0100
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2014-12-17 11:49:55 +0100
commitb0d7aa59592b4270531de5ce65dcf18338a2d98c (patch)
tree85d54dba5117fedd4d5b605be70ddbf8451d7838 /include/net/regulatory.h
parentcfg80211: allow usermode to query wiphy specific regdom (diff)
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cfg80211: allow wiphy specific regdomain management
Add a new regulatory flag that allows a driver to manage regdomain changes/updates for its own wiphy. A self-managed wiphys only employs regulatory information obtained from the FW and driver and does not use other cfg80211 sources like beacon-hints, country-code IEs and hints from other devices on the same system. Conversely, a self-managed wiphy does not share its regulatory hints with other devices in the system. If a system contains several devices, one or more of which are self-managed, there might be contradictory regulatory settings between them. Usage of flag is generally discouraged. Only use it if the FW/driver is incompatible with non-locally originated hints. A new API lets the driver send a complete regdomain, to be applied on its wiphy only. After a wiphy-specific regdomain change takes place, usermode will get a new type of change notification. The regulatory core also takes care enforce regulatory restrictions, in case some interfaces are on forbidden channels. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Doron <jonathanx.doron@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arikx.nemtsov@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/regulatory.h')
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1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/regulatory.h b/include/net/regulatory.h
index b776d72d84be..ebc5a2ed8631 100644
--- a/include/net/regulatory.h
+++ b/include/net/regulatory.h
@@ -147,6 +147,24 @@ struct regulatory_request {
* NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_CLIENT, NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_GO,
* NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_DEVICE. The flag will be set by default if a device
* includes any modes unsupported for enforcement checking.
+ * @REGULATORY_WIPHY_SELF_MANAGED: for devices that employ wiphy-specific
+ * regdom management. These devices will ignore all regdom changes not
+ * originating from their own wiphy.
+ * A self-managed wiphys only employs regulatory information obtained from
+ * the FW and driver and does not use other cfg80211 sources like
+ * beacon-hints, country-code IEs and hints from other devices on the same
+ * system. Conversely, a self-managed wiphy does not share its regulatory
+ * hints with other devices in the system. If a system contains several
+ * devices, one or more of which are self-managed, there might be
+ * contradictory regulatory settings between them. Usage of flag is
+ * generally discouraged. Only use it if the FW/driver is incompatible
+ * with non-locally originated hints.
+ * This flag is incompatible with the flags: %REGULATORY_CUSTOM_REG,
+ * %REGULATORY_STRICT_REG, %REGULATORY_COUNTRY_IE_FOLLOW_POWER,
+ * %REGULATORY_COUNTRY_IE_IGNORE and %REGULATORY_DISABLE_BEACON_HINTS.
+ * Mixing any of the above flags with this flag will result in a failure
+ * to register the wiphy. This flag implies
+ * %REGULATORY_DISABLE_BEACON_HINTS and %REGULATORY_COUNTRY_IE_IGNORE.
*/
enum ieee80211_regulatory_flags {
REGULATORY_CUSTOM_REG = BIT(0),
@@ -156,6 +174,7 @@ enum ieee80211_regulatory_flags {
REGULATORY_COUNTRY_IE_IGNORE = BIT(4),
REGULATORY_ENABLE_RELAX_NO_IR = BIT(5),
REGULATORY_IGNORE_STALE_KICKOFF = BIT(6),
+ REGULATORY_WIPHY_SELF_MANAGED = BIT(7),
};
struct ieee80211_freq_range {