commit 8b19e6ca3bac7e04e93fb73f561d670e77c5fae6
author Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Thu Jul 30 17:38:09 2009 -0700
committer John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Tue Aug 04 16:44:19 2009 -0400
tree 50a1487febe99b670aab253c4eebee2b8b3c8268
parent abc7381bcca6ce9dc101f112a13e14957bfbda7e

cfg80211: enable country IE support to all cfg80211 drivers

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>

net/wireless/reg.c

diff --git a/net/wireless/reg.c b/net/wireless/reg.c
index 6ab56f0..b3ac0aa 100644
--- a/net/wireless/reg.c
+++ b/net/wireless/reg.c
@@ -1822,10 +1822,7 @@
 		env = ENVIRON_OUTDOOR;
 
 	/*
-	 * We will run this for *every* beacon processed for the BSSID, so
-	 * we optimize an early check to exit out early if we don't have to
-	 * do anything
-	 *
+	 * We will run this only upon a successful connection on cfg80211.
 	 * We leave conflict resolution to the workqueue, where can hold
 	 * cfg80211_mutex.
 	 */
@@ -1878,7 +1875,6 @@
 out:
 	mutex_unlock(&reg_mutex);
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(regulatory_hint_11d);
 
 static bool freq_is_chan_12_13_14(u16 freq)
 {