From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@Atheros.com>,
"linville@tuxdriver.com" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/13] cfg80211: add option for wiphys to disregard country IEs
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:13:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090116211315.GN29609@tesla> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1232138328.3745.13.camel@johannes>
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:38:48PM -0800, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 08:40 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 01:17:12AM -0800, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 16:12 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > > > Country IEs can be disregarded based on regulatory policy by
> > > > a driver. This is only possible, of course, if the driver already
> > > > has its own regulatory domain.
> > >
> > > Can you say why? This doesn't seem useful to me.
> >
> > Its based on our internal regulatory policy for our hardware. If you have
> > a alpha2 map you should disregard the country IE. If you have a world regdom
> > you can follow the IE (but not enable more). Technically I think that without
> > this things may work now to respect the original driver stuff though with the
> > new orig_* changes, will need to test.
>
> I think it should work w/o this, yeah, and I also think we should follow
> the 11d hint if it restricts us further rather than just ignoring it.
I concur, will test (with OLD_REG and without it, jeesh).
Luis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-16 21:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-16 0:12 [PATCH 00/13] cfg80211/mac80211: fixes/enhancements for reg_notifier() Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-01-16 0:12 ` [PATCH 01/13] cfg80211: print correct intersected regulatory domain Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-01-16 0:12 ` [PATCH 02/13] cfg80211: add option for wiphys to disregard country IEs Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-01-16 0:12 ` [PATCH 03/13] cfg80211: add wiphy_apply_custom_regulatory() Luis R. Rodriguez
[not found] ` <1232064746-17134-5-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com>
2009-01-16 0:12 ` [PATCH 05/13] cfg80211: Fix sanity check on 5 GHz when processing country IE Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-01-16 0:12 ` [PATCH 06/13] cfg80211: process user requests only after previous user/driver/core requests Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-01-16 0:12 ` [PATCH 07/13] cfg80211: only export disable flag on channel disablement Luis R. Rodriguez
[not found] ` <1232064746-17134-9-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com>
2009-01-16 0:12 ` [PATCH 09/13] cfg80211: rename fw_handles_regulatory to custom_regulatory Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-01-16 0:12 ` [PATCH 10/13] cfg80211: remove check for last_request on ignore_reg_update() Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-01-16 0:12 ` [PATCH 11/13] cfg80211: move check for ignore_reg_update() on wiphy_update_regulatory() Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-01-16 0:12 ` [PATCH 12/13] mac80211: allow mac80211 drivers to get to struct ieee80211_hw from wiphy Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-01-16 0:12 ` [PATCH 13/13] cfg80211: Remove CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-01-16 9:28 ` Johannes Berg
2009-01-16 15:14 ` John W. Linville
2009-01-16 9:27 ` [PATCH 12/13] mac80211: allow mac80211 drivers to get to struct ieee80211_hw from wiphy Johannes Berg
2009-01-16 9:27 ` [PATCH 11/13] cfg80211: move check for ignore_reg_update() on wiphy_update_regulatory() Johannes Berg
2009-01-16 9:26 ` [PATCH 10/13] cfg80211: remove check for last_request on ignore_reg_update() Johannes Berg
2009-01-16 16:27 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-01-16 20:33 ` Johannes Berg
2009-01-16 21:02 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-01-16 9:25 ` [PATCH 09/13] cfg80211: rename fw_handles_regulatory to custom_regulatory Johannes Berg
2009-01-16 9:25 ` [PATCH 08/13] cfg80211: save original values on regulatory hints Johannes Berg
2009-01-16 16:31 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-01-16 20:34 ` Johannes Berg
2009-01-16 21:06 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-01-18 8:47 ` Johannes Berg
2009-01-18 15:28 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-01-18 17:12 ` Johannes Berg
2009-01-18 17:38 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-01-16 9:23 ` [PATCH 07/13] cfg80211: only export disable flag on channel disablement Johannes Berg
2009-01-16 16:32 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-01-16 20:35 ` Johannes Berg
2009-01-16 21:09 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-01-18 8:48 ` Johannes Berg
2009-01-18 15:30 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-01-18 17:13 ` Johannes Berg
2009-01-18 17:39 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-01-16 9:22 ` [PATCH 06/13] cfg80211: process user requests only after previous user/driver/core requests Johannes Berg
2009-01-16 9:21 ` [PATCH 05/13] cfg80211: Fix sanity check on 5 GHz when processing country IE Johannes Berg
2009-01-16 9:20 ` [PATCH 03/13] cfg80211: add wiphy_apply_custom_regulatory() Johannes Berg
2009-01-16 16:36 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-01-16 20:37 ` Johannes Berg
2009-01-16 21:12 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-01-16 22:13 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-01-17 9:30 ` Johannes Berg
2009-01-17 22:06 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-01-18 8:49 ` Johannes Berg
2009-01-18 15:31 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-01-18 17:15 ` Johannes Berg
2009-01-16 9:17 ` [PATCH 02/13] cfg80211: add option for wiphys to disregard country IEs Johannes Berg
2009-01-16 16:40 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-01-16 20:38 ` Johannes Berg
2009-01-16 21:13 ` Luis R. Rodriguez [this message]
2009-01-16 9:16 ` [PATCH 01/13] cfg80211: print correct intersected regulatory domain Johannes Berg
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