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    iwlwifi: mvm: fix regulatory domain update when the firmware starts · 82715ac7
    Emmanuel Grumbach authored
    When the firmware starts, it doesn't have any regulatory
    information, hence it uses the world wide limitations. The
    driver can feed the firmware with previous knowledge that
    was kept in the driver, but the firmware may still not
    update its internal tables.
    
    This happens when we start a BSS interface, and then the
    firmware can change the regulatory tables based on our
    location and it'll use more lenient, location specific
    rules. Then, if the firmware is shut down (when the
    interface is brought down), and then an AP interface is
    created, the firmware will forget the country specific
    rules.
    
    The host will think that we are in a certain country that
    may allow channels and will try to teach the firmware about
    our location, but the firmware may still not allow to drop
    the world wide limitations and apply country specific rules
    because it was just re-started.
    
    In this case, the firmware will reply with MCC_RESP_ILLEGAL
    to the MCC_UPDATE_CMD. In that case, iwlwifi needs to let
    the upper layers (cfg80211 / hostapd) know that the channel
    list they know about has been updated.
    
    This fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201105
    
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEmmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLuca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
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