linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] wifi: cfg80211: Add beacon hint notifier support

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Message-ID: <0d4b99ab0a5bedc82f35bc1e548a611564b010e5.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date:   Wed, 15 Feb 2023 16:10:11 +0100
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     "Youghandhar Chintala (Temp)" <quic_youghand@...cinc.com>,
        ath10k@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        quic_mpubbise@...cinc.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] wifi: cfg80211: Add beacon hint notifier support

> > 
> > Why is this even needed? You should always get reg_notifier after this
> > anyway?
> 
> Currently when channel flag changed through the beacon hints are not 
> informed to driver.
> 
> reg_notifier will be triggered for regdomain changes but not for channel flag changes due to beacon hints.
> 

So maybe triggering reg notifier once would be sufficient, a la Wen's
patch that I recently merged?

johannes