Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: fix regression on beacon world roaming feature

Johannes Berg
2009-07-31T07:45:55Z

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On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 17:43 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

> By doing so though we also disallowed beacon hints on devices
> registering their wiphy with custom world regulatory domains
> enabled, this happens to be currently ath5k, ath9k and ar9170.
> The passive scan and beacon restrictions on those devices would
> never be lifted even if we did find a beacon and the hardware did
> support such enhancements when world roaming.

I dislike this solution, it just adds proliferation of possible
behaviours. Can't those devices just set the _flags_ in their reg
notifier, and clear the corresponding bit in the orig_flags?

johannes

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