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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Uli Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Faidon Liambotis <faidon@cube.gr>,
	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>,
	Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>,
	Jouni Malinen <jkm@devicescape.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Proposed structure for Regulatory/Geographical Wireless database
Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 16:23:00 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <445BC234.4060909@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0605052256570.26787@p15091797.pureserver.info>

Uli Kunitz wrote:
> Larry Finger wrote:
> 
>> * A new routine (ieee80211_init_geo ?) will be written to be called by the
>> driver to load the geo structure into the kernel. Information passed to the
>> daemon will be the country code in ASCII and whether the interface is to be
>> used indoors or outdoors.
> 
> Would it be possible to support the regulatory domain codes as
> used in the outdated table 105 in Corrigendum 1 for 802.11b? The
> ZD1211 EEPROM contains only this code. An easy translation
> function would be sufficient. Maybe the group codes could be
> misused for it.

That certainly shouldn't be any difficulty. It could be done in the ZD1211 driver before it calls 
the ieee80211_init_geo routine, or it could be done in the regulatory daemon. I assume that the 
EEPROM contains X'10' for FCC regulations, X'31' for Spain, etc.

Larry

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-05 21:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-05 20:14 [RFC] Proposed structure for Regulatory/Geographical Wireless database Larry Finger
2006-05-05 21:08 ` Uli Kunitz
2006-05-05 21:23   ` Larry Finger [this message]
2006-05-06  5:07     ` Uli Kunitz
2006-05-05 21:10 ` Dan Williams
2006-05-05 21:52   ` Larry Finger
2006-05-06  1:31 ` Jouni Malinen
2006-05-07  2:02   ` Larry Finger
2006-05-06 18:48 ` Michael Buesch
2006-05-06 19:24   ` Larry Finger

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