[PATCH v3] wifi: cfg80211: call reg_notifier for self managed wiphy from driver hint

[Wen Gong]

On 2/15/2023 3:31 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Hi Wen,
>
>> I see you have merged v2 to wireless-next.git and this v3's state is reject.
> Yeah. Actually, I saw v3 only after I merged v2, but then I saw what the
> change was and figured that was unnecessary anyway.
>
>> So do you mean we should not keep hole BIT 24 in enum wiphy_flags from
>> now as well as hole 11/12 in commit 8e8b41f9d8c8/ca986ad9bcd3?
> Indeed. The point of the comment saying "use" was to actually, well,
> _use_ the hole next time. I haven't really enforced that since I keep
> forgetting (and we're nowhere near running out of bits), but yes, the
> point is that you could even have used bit 11 or 12.
>
>> If that, then backport this patch will be more complex, because the
>> backport kernel already have
>> WIPHY_FLAG_HAS_STATIC_WEP= BIT(24), then firstly the backport kernel
>> need backport other
>> patch(585b6e1304dc ("wifi: cfg80211: remove support for static WEP"))
>> which is not really needed.
> I guess it could use another bit number (such as 11) in a backport, but
> I don't see that this really _needs_ to be backported? And if you're
> using backports to backport the whole wifi stack then this isn't even a
> question since it all comes in backports.

If use another bit such as 11 while backport this patch, then it will 
easily lead mismatch/error

and increase difficulty of maintain code.

I need backport this patch soon.

> johannes