Re: [PATCH] mwifiex: Add module parameter for regdomain

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 12:01:23PM -0700, Bing Zhao wrote:
> 
> > >> "iw reg set XX" or "country_code=XX" in hostapd.conf is a *user* hint.
> > >>
> > >> What we need here is a *driver* hint. Furthermore, with a driver
> > >> regulatory hint, the passive-scan and no-ibss flags are cleared so we
> > >> can start AP with hostapd on 5G band.
> > >
> > > So it's a driver hint which is coming from user space via a module
> > > parameter. IMHO you are abusing interfaces here. Is there any better way
> > > to solve your problem?
> > 
> > It would be nice to have some way to do this for ath9k and other NICs
> > as well.  Best I could come up with is a similar hack for ath9k.
> > 
> > I think part of the problem is that this config info needs to be
> > available very early in the module loading/init logic, so it's
> > too late to be configured using 'iw' or similar.
> 
> Exactly. regulatory_hint () needs to be called right after wiphy registration.

It does seem a bit ugly.  But if Marvell wants it, I don't see any
"regulatory" argument to disallow something like this.

Does anyone have a better suggestion for a user interface for such
a feature?

John
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