Re: [PATCH 08/13] cfg80211: save original values on regulatory hints

["Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 09:12:05AM -0800, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 07:28 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> 
> > Are you suggesting we consider new API for drivers which want the
> > behaviour we want? That works for me too, but then again I'd be applying
> > the save orig_* stuff perhaps at the end of this new, say,
> > regulatory_hint_strict().
> 
> Well, I was more thinking to have a 
> struct regdomain *cfg80211_ask_crda(const char *alpha2);
> 
> but I realise that is very hard to implement with the call to userspace
> etc. So yeah, doing something like the _strict you propose seems more
> appropriate. Maybe call it something else, not _hint,and have it call
> out to userspace regardless (i.e. don't ever ignore that hint, as we
> might ignore other hints), say regulatory_apply(wiphy, alpha2)? Not
> sure, apply seems not quite right either.

I'd definitely would prefer if cfg80211 handled this instead of the drivers
through the reg_notifier(), will go back and try to do that and see if I
can come up with a decent name to indicate what we are doing.

  Luis