cfg80211: allow wiphy specific regdomain management

Add a new regulatory flag that allows a driver to manage regdomain
changes/updates for its own wiphy.
A self-managed wiphys only employs regulatory information obtained from
the FW and driver and does not use other cfg80211 sources like
beacon-hints, country-code IEs and hints from other devices on the same
system. Conversely, a self-managed wiphy does not share its regulatory
hints with other devices in the system. If a system contains several
devices, one or more of which are self-managed, there might be
contradictory regulatory settings between them. Usage of flag is
generally discouraged. Only use it if the FW/driver is incompatible
with non-locally originated hints.

A new API lets the driver send a complete regdomain, to be applied on
its wiphy only.

After a wiphy-specific regdomain change takes place, usermode will get
a new type of change notification. The regulatory core also takes care
enforce regulatory restrictions, in case some interfaces are on
forbidden channels.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Doron <jonathanx.doron@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arikx.nemtsov@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/wireless/core.h b/net/wireless/core.h
index faa5b1609aae..e87cae57a83b 100644
--- a/net/wireless/core.h
+++ b/net/wireless/core.h
@@ -36,6 +36,13 @@ struct cfg80211_registered_device {
 	 * the country on the country IE changed. */
 	char country_ie_alpha2[2];
 
+	/*
+	 * the driver requests the regulatory core to set this regulatory
+	 * domain as the wiphy's. Only used for %REGULATORY_WIPHY_SELF_MANAGED
+	 * devices using the regulatory_set_wiphy_regd() API
+	 */
+	const struct ieee80211_regdomain *requested_regd;
+
 	/* If a Country IE has been received this tells us the environment
 	 * which its telling us its in. This defaults to ENVIRON_ANY */
 	enum environment_cap env;