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cfg80211: enable country IE support to all cfg80211 drivers

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Since the bss is always set now once we are connected, if the
bss has its own information element we refer to it and pass that
instead of relying on mac80211's parsing.

Now all cfg80211 drivers get country IE support, automatically and
we reduce the call overhead that we had on mac80211 which called this
upon every beacon and instead now call this only upon a successfull
connection by a STA on cfg80211.

Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-07-30 17:38:09 -07:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent abc7381bcc
commit 8b19e6ca3b
5 changed files with 33 additions and 24 deletions
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net/mac80211/mlme.c
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@ -1845,12 +1845,8 @@ static void ieee80211_rx_mgmt_beacon(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
bssid, ap_ht_cap_flags);
}
/* Note: country IE parsing is done for us by cfg80211 */
if (elems.country_elem) {
/* Note we are only reviewing this on beacons
* for the BSSID we are associated to */
regulatory_hint_11d(local->hw.wiphy,
elems.country_elem, elems.country_elem_len);
/* TODO: IBSS also needs this */
if (elems.pwr_constr_elem)
ieee80211_handle_pwr_constr(sdata,