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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nl80211: Provide per channel maximum regulatory transmit power
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 10:44:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1380703470.13329.1.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1380699789-3765-1-git-send-email-helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> (sfid-20131002_094321_138487_B88345D4)

On Wed, 2013-10-02 at 09:43 +0200, Helmut Schaa wrote:
> In some cases its not only required to know the maximum transmit power
> the hw is capable of. Instead, userspace (hostapd) might want to know
> the maximum transmit power as defined in the current regulatory domain
> (for example for 802.11d country IEs).

Why wouldn't it use (the equivalent of) "iw reg get" for that?


> +	if (nla_put_u32(msg, NL80211_FREQUENCY_ATTR_MAX_REG_TX_POWER,
> +			DBM_TO_MBM(chan->max_reg_power)))
> +		goto nla_put_failure;

This would have to go into the "if (large)" part because otherwise older
userspace can't read the info at all since it overflows the buffer.

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-02  8:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-02  7:43 [PATCH] nl80211: Provide per channel maximum regulatory transmit power Helmut Schaa
2013-10-02  8:44 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2013-10-02  9:04   ` Helmut Schaa

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