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Subject: Re: [RFC] cfg80211: Allow self managed devices to update global
 regulatory
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To:     Sriram R <srirrama@codeaurora.org>
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Date:   Fri, 06 Sep 2019 09:44:14 +0200
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On Fri, 2019-09-06 at 08:45 +0530, Sriram R wrote:
> Currently, self managed drivers cannot update the global regulatory
> using a regulatory hint from driver if the wiphy regd is already set
> from other sources.
> Due to this, when a regulatory hint is provided to cfg80211 from
> self managed devices, the request gets ignored and global reg is
> always at default, i.e World reg, DFS-UNSET.
> Hence in such systems, the result of 'iw reg get' does not indicate a
> valid global regd.

Yeah, but ... if you have a self-managed PHY you should anyway use

   iw phy0 reg get

instead of plain

   iw reg get

so I'm not sure I understand?

johannes