[PATCH] cfg80211: Allow pre-CAC for self-managed wiphy

[Johannes Berg]

On Mon, 2024-04-29 at 09:57 +0530, Harshitha Prem wrote:
> Currently, to allow pre-CAC it requires both driver's regulatory domain
> in wiphy and cfg80211 local regulatory domain to be same, along with the
> region to be in ETSI.

Any idea why that is?

> But, for self-managed driver, some countries have mismatch between these
> two regulatory domains and it would not allow for a pre-CAC. For example,
> in ath12k driver (self-managed), country Sri Lanka (LK) is classified as
> FCC domain as per cfg80211 local regulatory database but as per ath12k
> driver it falls under ETSI domain then because of this mismatch, the
> driver might not be able to do a pre-CAC.
> 
> Hence, add changes to allow pre-CAC based on wiphy's regulatory setting
> if it is a self-managed wiphy.

I don't see how that's really all that much more helpful than simply
removing the restriction? But then why is the restriction there?

johannes