On Mon, 2017-01-02 at 16:05 +0100, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > On 2 January 2017 at 15:04, Johannes Berg <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Perhaps a better approach would be to not combine this with wiphy > > registration, but require drivers that may use this to call a new > > helper function *before* wiphy registration (and *after* calling > > set_wiphy_dev()), like e.g. > > > > ieee80211_read_of_data(wiphy); > > > > (...)
> I just think it may be better to stick to something like > ieee80211_read_of_freq_limits > or > wiphy_read_of_freq_limits I have no objection to that. > As you noted this function will be a bit specific because of > modifying (possibly shared) band channels. At some point we may want > to add more helpers for other OF properties which won't have extra > requirements for driver code. Some drivers may want to use them while > not necessary risking have shared band channels modified. That makes sense, although at that time we might still wish to have a common "read it all" with the combined requirements. But we can cross that bridge when we get to it. johannes
