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From: "Tomas Winkler" <tomasw@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1 V2] cfg80211: adding NONE regdomain
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On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 14:25 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
>
>> The idea was ask troubled user to make change in modprobe.conf and not
>> changing the code.
>
> Yeah but IMHO you're solving the wrong problem. If we want any
> credibility we shouldn't allow users to ignore any regdom that easily,
> and this is system-wide. Also, iwlwifi partly caused this problem in the
> first place by printing out eeprom channels rather than having users use
> "iwlist wlan0 channel" to see which channels are usable. Or even iw,
> which shows you which are disabled.

Unfortunately iwlist channel gives very little information about
channels and iw is not distributed by any distro as far as I know.

Here is little patch to help iw be more useful.

--- a/iw.c
+++ b/iw.c
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ static void usage(char *argv0)
        fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %1$s dev <phydev> <OBJECT> <COMMAND> [OPTIONS]"
                        "\n     %1$s dev <phydev> info\n"
                        "\n"
-                       "where OBJECT := { interface | station | mpath }\n"
+                       "where OBJECT := { interface | station | mpath
| info }\n"
                        "and COMMAND := { add | del | set | get | dump }\n",
                        argv0);
 }


Tomas