From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:43679 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753001AbZAPUiy (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:38:54 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/13] cfg80211: add option for wiphys to disregard country IEs From: Johannes Berg To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: Luis Rodriguez , "linville@tuxdriver.com" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" In-Reply-To: <20090116164004.GH29609@tesla> References: <1232064746-17134-1-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> <1232064746-17134-2-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> <1232064746-17134-3-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> <1232097432.3854.15.camel@johannes> <20090116164004.GH29609@tesla> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-DYDwE8r5aTDfbchU6Rms" Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:38:48 +0100 Message-Id: <1232138328.3745.13.camel@johannes> (sfid-20090116_213900_832997_767732FB) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-DYDwE8r5aTDfbchU6Rms Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. > >=20 > > Can you say why? This doesn't seem useful to me. >=20 > 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 reg= dom > you can follow the IE (but not enable more). Technically I think that wit= hout > 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. johannes --=-DYDwE8r5aTDfbchU6Rms Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJJcPBVAAoJEKVg1VMiehFYQT0P/0iu9g/7uezEPVwD2DtlsYH+ 6cwyBM144r1GRxkIqHGoewkt5mk7b7hVWo5CHFGBSJ+5dOp5aDoO93qyQoN6JWSd QpEKsbWIgrEhbU6cMZEBCO9Br+1Tb8+qFGSGeAtfwpOTxCfRwkMM2fiG1fOc+B5D PnexUoeZjBfPZQOi7OmwlDuNuqAL2+266Kcq+qcaQEWvNSEk3IlDgMPNb+A7x7BB IWl07ov2SWnfTCHHcieA75fT7jh9cecx+LY1NpJUz5H9zhF1cN184seM9iM9zt21 Ih2xmE31qGT9gFw1MA2FURXy+EjqzRozo9Pi43AFYaFOezncqMaTjtUwRTu3b1vq VbEM82e7MK1yl3t19duUkk5WhlwavUCQE2BT51RJv6tOfZA3M5LArI4d9fnDPhsD JYoZ5A103uE7/rPPmAMgVyTFyL/Fg76mpdV7d0yLEhwiYjS8sAyBlOTTl22L2FpD B0Kyvc8wmJyFax9zyHY3Tk1rLynKyLythWWQDmUBX/n3Fp9iGps3fcwxNNHZlzRa PZ0XdxaAmzdNgYLH6EpzCq4laNekeXG/Qkj0l5t6EQWI/SRwc+l5LV4EWL6caqcg DPfMl0XusEWYukPpWTpLg7af4JrI7QZWmODAK3n1fXfdVYk22RK+9V9f3jvpVIBP ZxC6/+CKz1JSNj8YoeJW =l6Lr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-DYDwE8r5aTDfbchU6Rms--