From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932595AbWBEDqk (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Feb 2006 22:46:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932596AbWBEDqk (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Feb 2006 22:46:40 -0500 Received: from CPE-24-31-249-53.kc.res.rr.com ([24.31.249.53]:40167 "EHLO tsurukikun.utopios.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932595AbWBEDqj (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Feb 2006 22:46:39 -0500 From: Luke-Jr To: sclark46@earthlink.net Subject: Re: WLAN drivers Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 03:46:45 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 Cc: Lee Revell , Alistair John Strachan , Panagiotis Issaris , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-netdev@vger.kernel.org References: <1138969138.8434.26.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1138990013.15691.272.camel@mindpipe> <43E39E77.90403@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <43E39E77.90403@earthlink.net> Public-GPG-Key: 0xD53E9583 Public-GPG-Key-URI: http://dashjr.org/~luke-jr/myself/Luke-Jr.pgp IM-Address: luke-jr@jabber.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602050346.48198.luke@dashjr.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 03 February 2006 18:18, Stephen Clark wrote: > The module includes a binary hal module that keeps the card from being > abused - programmed out of FCC specs. Why is so different from a card that > has to have firmware loaded on it that in essence does the same thing - > prevents the driver writer from programming the card out of FCC specs. How about let the user decide to comply with FCC (or not)? Maybe it's been exported? Maybe the user has a hack to make it receive an AM radio signal? Plenty of legal possibilities.