Re: [PATCH 2/2] ath6kl: add support for changing contry code

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>]

On 07/12/2012 10:40 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 2:39 AM, Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com> wrote:
>> +config ATH6KL_REGDOMAIN
>> +       bool "Atheros ath6kl regdomain support"
>> +       depends on ATH6KL
>> +       depends on CFG80211_CERTIFICATION_ONUS
>> +       ---help---
>> +         Enabling this makes it possible to change the regdomain in
>> +         the firmware. This can be only enabled if regulatory requirements
>> +         are taken into account.
> 
> You will need to add wiphy->features |=
> NL80211_FEATURE_CELL_BASE_REG_HINTS in order to enable the base
> station hints to propagate to the driver and even to the core,
> otherwise this is ignored. This was addressed starting at v4 of my
> onus patches. Given this, I think it makes sense to rename the option
> to enable / disable base station hints and to update the language to
> clearly reflect that is the only type of hint that would be used to
> update the firmware regulatory domain.

I was planning to do this in two phases, first do a simple
implementation (these two patches) and then add support for the cellular
BTS hints.

Kalle