Re: [PATCH] wifi: cfg80211: allow IR on a channel the wiphy already operates on

[Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson@oss.qualcomm.com>]

On 10/12/2026 6:42 AM, TangYi wrote:
> On Mon, 2026-10-12 at 20:59 +0800, Johannes Berg wrote:
>> This isn't how regulatory works, sorry.
> 
> Thanks for the correction - the "already radiating" argument was the
> wrong frame, please disregard that reasoning.
> 
> Let me ask the constructive version, with the concrete observation that
> led me here. On this iwlwifi device (Meteor Lake CNVi, firmware in LAR),
> after the station associates on ch149:
> 
>  - iw reg get (phy section) shows the learned domain marking
>    5735-5775 MHz as IR-CONCURRENT;
> 
>  - iw phy shows channel 5745 with plain "no IR" and no IR_CONCURRENT
>    flag;
> 
>  - and the iwlwifi source contains no IR_CONCURRENT handling at all.
> 
> So the domain rules and the per-channel flags disagree, and the
> reg_can_beacon relaxation cannot trigger (it requires the channel
> flag). Should the driver be propagating the domain's IR_CONCURRENT rule
> onto the channel flags once the firmware has a usable domain? Or is AP
> operation on such channels simply not intended until a country is
> learned?
> 
> Happy to take this to the iwlwifi side if that's where the fix belongs.
> 
> TangYi

off topic: you need to figure out your mail agent since this reply was not
threaded properly.

It indicates In-Reply-To: <20261012125955.1519379-1-1914018426@qq.com> but
that was not the Message-Id of either your patch or Johannes' reply.