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From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
To: Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@Atheros.com>
Cc: "johannes@sipsolutions.net" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	"linville@tuxdriver.com" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] cfg80211/mac80211: Add 802.11d support
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 12:56:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081106205643.GI6169@tesla> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1226004327-10290-4-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com>

On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 12:45:27PM -0800, Luis Rodriguez wrote:
> This adds country IE parsing to mac80211 and enables its usage
> within the new regulatory infrastructure in cfg80211. We parse
> the country IEs only on management beacons for the BSSID you are
> associated to and disregard the IEs when the country and environment
> (indoor, outdoor, any) matches the already processed country IE.
> 
> To avoid following misinformed or outdated APs we build and use
> a regulatory domain out of the intersection between what the AP
> provides us on the country IE and what CRDA is aware is allowed
> on the same country.
> 
> A secondary device is allowed to follow only the same country IE
> as it make no sense for two devices on a system to be in two
> different countries.
> 
> In the case the AP is using country IEs for an incorrect country
> the user may help compliance further by setting the regulatory
> domain before or after the IE is parsed and in that case another
> intersection will be performed.
> 
> CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY is supported but requires CRDA
> present.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/recv.c |    5 +-

Crap please ignore that hunk.. or I can resend...

  Luis


  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-06 20:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-06 20:45 [PATCH v2 0/3] cfg80211/mac80211: Add 802.11d support Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-11-06 20:45 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] cfg80211: call_crda() won't tell us if CRDA was present Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-11-06 20:45   ` [PATCH v2 2/3] cfg80211: mark regdomains with > NL80211_MAX_SUPP_REG_RULES invalid Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-11-06 20:45     ` [PATCH 3/3] cfg80211/mac80211: Add 802.11d support Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-11-06 20:56       ` Luis R. Rodriguez [this message]
2008-11-07 21:06     ` [PATCH v2 2/3] cfg80211: mark regdomains with > NL80211_MAX_SUPP_REG_RULES invalid Johannes Berg
2008-11-07 21:12       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-11-07 21:05   ` [PATCH v2 1/3] cfg80211: call_crda() won't tell us if CRDA was present Johannes Berg
2008-11-07 21:02 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] cfg80211/mac80211: Add 802.11d support Johannes Berg

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