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Commit b0d7aa59 authored by Jonathan Doron's avatar Jonathan Doron Committed by Johannes Berg
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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: default avatarJonathan Doron <jonathanx.doron@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArik Nemtsov <arikx.nemtsov@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarLuis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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