Re: New Regulatory Domain Api.

["Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:25:48PM -0700, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> > The problem here is not this though the problem here is the case
> > where people are using 2.6.28 without no iw or crda *and* have more
> > than two cards :)
> 
> it might sound like an unlikely case and it will most likely only be the
> A-band usage anyway, but it is a valid case. People with old laptops do
> use newer wireless cards in PCMCIA or USB form factor to get better WiFi
> performance and/or stability. In some cases you can just replace your
> internal card, but with the switch from MiniPCI to half-MiniPCI this is
> not as likely anymore. So the use of a second external card becomes more
> likely.

Right, and the proposed solution I had was to use an intersection
between two regulatory domains. This solution just doesn't currently
work well with Intel cards due to the capability <-> regulatory one to
one mapping.

> I am still for the first card wins concept when no CRDA is present or
> the userspace just doesn't know about setting the regulatory domain.
> However we should have it separated for each band to not lock some
> people out who have no clue on why they now loose the 5 GHz band.

Sure.

  Luis