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authorLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>2008-10-30 13:33:56 -0700
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2008-11-10 15:17:41 -0500
commit5166ccd220f187b2e9edfc5f01eb49f4a0ebf586 (patch)
tree18e3d685a5b72d9f1a8e0f30cbec8191cc957c84 /net/wireless
parentb219cee191e7cfe88a695a57249a295d0d5b22e9 (diff)
downloadlinux-5166ccd220f187b2e9edfc5f01eb49f4a0ebf586.tar.bz2
cfg80211: Add kdoc for struct regulatory_request
As regulatory_request gets bigger there will be more questions of what things means, so clarify documenation for it and keep track of the special alpha2 codes we use internally and on the userspace regulatory agents. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless')
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/reg.c22
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/reg.c b/net/wireless/reg.c
index 3f18a1d03a55..4c7e39d466c4 100644
--- a/net/wireless/reg.c
+++ b/net/wireless/reg.c
@@ -42,9 +42,24 @@
#include "core.h"
#include "reg.h"
-/*
- * wiphy is set if this request's initiator is
- * REGDOM_SET_BY_COUNTRY_IE or _DRIVER
+/**
+ * struct regulatory_request - receipt of last regulatory request
+ *
+ * @wiphy: this is set if this request's initiator is
+ * %REGDOM_SET_BY_COUNTRY_IE or %REGDOM_SET_BY_DRIVER. This
+ * can be used by the wireless core to deal with conflicts
+ * and potentially inform users of which devices specifically
+ * cased the conflicts.
+ * @initiator: indicates who sent this request, could be any of
+ * of those set in reg_set_by, %REGDOM_SET_BY_*
+ * @alpha2: the ISO / IEC 3166 alpha2 country code of the requested
+ * regulatory domain. We have a few special codes:
+ * 00 - World regulatory domain
+ * 99 - built by driver but a specific alpha2 cannot be determined
+ * 98 - result of an intersection between two regulatory domains
+ * @intersect: indicates whether the wireless core should intersect
+ * the requested regulatory domain with the presently set regulatory
+ * domain.
*/
struct regulatory_request {
struct wiphy *wiphy;
@@ -53,6 +68,7 @@ struct regulatory_request {
bool intersect;
};
+/* Receipt of information from last regulatory request */
static struct regulatory_request *last_request;
/* To trigger userspace events */