[PATCH v2 1/8] cfg80211: add power type definition for 6 GHz

[Johannes Berg]

On Thu, 2021-08-26 at 19:02 +0800, Wen Gong wrote:
> On 2021-08-26 16:22, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Thu, 2021-08-26 at 10:20 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > >  struct cfg80211_chan_def {
> > > >  	struct ieee80211_channel *chan;
> > > > @@ -684,6 +685,7 @@ struct cfg80211_chan_def {
> > > >  	u32 center_freq2;
> > > >  	struct ieee80211_edmg edmg;
> > > >  	u16 freq1_offset;
> > > > +	enum nl80211_ap_reg_power power_type;
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure why this should be in the chandef, there's no way that
> > > anything in cfg80211 is ever using it there, at least in your patches.
> > 
> > Does it even *apply* to a channel? What if I'm connecting to two APs on
> > the same channel (two client interfaces)?
> > 
> this is one copy for each connection, each client has its own 
> cfg80211_chan_def.

That depends on where you check it - but you're basically saying "use
this only from vif->bss_conf.chandef (or something, didn't check now),
but chandef shows up in many other places and you don't maintain it
anywhere else.

johannes