If a device has self-managed regulatory, insist on returning the wiphy specific regdomain if a wiphy-idx is specified. The global regdomain is meaningless for such devices. Also add an attribute for self-managed devices, so usermode can distinguish them as such.
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| 261 | 261 | * the regulatory core to help with compliance. A dump version of this API |
| 262 | 262 | * is now available which will returns the global regdomain as well as |
| 263 | 263 | * all private regdomains of present wiphys (for those that have it). |
| 264 | + * If a wiphy is self-managed (%NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_SELF_MANAGED_REG), then | |
| 265 | + * its private regdomain is the only valid one for it. The regulatory | |
| 266 | + * core is not used to help with compliance in this case. | |
| 264 | 267 | * @NL80211_CMD_SET_REG: Set current regulatory domain. CRDA sends this command |
| 265 | 268 | * after being queried by the kernel. CRDA replies by sending a regulatory |
| 266 | 269 | * domain structure which consists of %NL80211_ATTR_REG_ALPHA set to our |
| @@ -1702,6 +1705,11 @@ enum nl80211_commands { · 1435 unmodified lines | ||
| 1702 | 1705 | * |
| 1703 | 1706 | * @NL80211_ATTR_MAC_MASK: MAC address mask |
| 1704 | 1707 | * |
| 1708 | + * @NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_SELF_MANAGED_REG: flag attribute indicating this device | |
| 1709 | + * is self-managing its regulatory information and any regulatory domain | |
| 1710 | + * obtained from it is coming from the device's wiphy and not the global | |
| 1711 | + * cfg80211 regdomain. | |
| 1712 | + * | |
| 1705 | 1713 | * @NUM_NL80211_ATTR: total number of nl80211_attrs available |
| 1706 | 1714 | * @NL80211_ATTR_MAX: highest attribute number currently defined |
| 1707 | 1715 | * @__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST: internal use |
| @@ -2059,6 +2067,8 @@ enum nl80211_attrs { · 351 unmodified lines | ||
| 2059 | 2067 | |
| 2060 | 2068 | NL80211_ATTR_MAC_MASK, |
| 2061 | 2069 | |
| 2070 | + NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_SELF_MANAGED_REG, | |
| 2071 | + | |
| 2062 | 2072 | /* add attributes here, update the policy in nl80211.c */ |
| 2063 | 2073 | |
| 2064 | 2074 | __NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST, |