From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Marcel Holtmann <holtmann@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>,
Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@atheros.com>,
Tomas Winkler <tomasw@gmail.com>,
"Kolekar, Abhijeet" <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: New Regulatory Domain Api.
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:13:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081021171328.GG17268@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1224571890.9386.85.camel@californication>
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:51:30AM +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> > And you can use new kernels on old distributions with old wireless
> > drivers, however new mac80211 based drivers can reasonably require new
> > userspace utilities, and in this case we have a new userspace
> > requirement *only* when cfg80211/mac80211 based drivers do not provide
> > their own regutory_hint() or in the particular case outlined in this
> > thread. Additionally this new feature allows users who want to be more
> > compliant to do so by s specifying a country.
>
> No we can't have a new (or updated) driver require new userspace. If you
> install a 2.6.30 kernel on an Ubuntu Hardy system, it should make the
> hardware work without installing an extra userspace component. And yes,
> it works for the first card if it provides a regulatory hint, but it
> should also work for the second card.
That is what WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY is for, no?
--
John W. Linville Linux should be at the core
linville@tuxdriver.com of your literate lifestyle.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-21 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-09 22:17 New Regulatory Domain Api Kolekar, Abhijeet
2008-10-09 15:45 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-10 3:22 ` Zhu Yi
2008-10-10 16:49 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-14 6:59 ` Zhu Yi
2008-10-14 7:04 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-14 7:36 ` Zhu Yi
2008-10-14 9:04 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-14 9:13 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-14 9:23 ` Zhu Yi
2008-10-14 9:27 ` Zhu Yi
2008-10-14 9:32 ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-14 9:30 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-14 20:35 ` John W. Linville
2008-10-14 21:15 ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-14 21:19 ` John W. Linville
2008-10-14 21:27 ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-14 21:50 ` John W. Linville
2008-10-14 21:57 ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-15 15:46 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-10-15 15:59 ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-15 17:26 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-10-15 17:39 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-15 17:45 ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-15 18:11 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-15 17:47 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-10-15 11:25 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-15 19:25 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-10-15 13:16 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-15 23:31 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-10-15 17:08 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-16 0:35 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-10-15 17:44 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-16 0:57 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-10-15 18:56 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-16 3:00 ` Zhu Yi
2008-10-16 11:38 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-20 2:51 ` Zhu Yi
2008-10-20 3:40 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-20 5:18 ` Zhu Yi
2008-10-20 6:33 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-20 6:38 ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-20 6:46 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-20 6:50 ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-20 6:59 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-20 7:22 ` Zhu Yi
2008-10-20 16:43 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-10-21 1:34 ` Zhu Yi
2008-10-21 1:42 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-21 1:58 ` Zhu Yi
2008-10-21 2:37 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-21 4:02 ` Zhu Yi
2008-10-21 4:58 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-21 5:28 ` Zhu Yi
2008-10-21 6:02 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-21 6:46 ` Zhu Yi
2008-10-21 6:07 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-10-21 6:29 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-21 6:51 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-10-21 17:13 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2008-10-21 17:43 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-10-21 17:48 ` John W. Linville
2008-10-21 11:02 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-21 18:05 ` John W. Linville
2008-10-21 11:21 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-22 9:20 ` Zhu Yi
2008-10-22 10:13 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-23 2:29 ` Zhu Yi
2008-10-21 6:40 ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-21 6:47 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-10-21 7:05 ` Johannes Berg
[not found] ` <79124FD53D2E084387D88C71BEB48F3EDD3625@CPEXBE-EML29.kpnsp.local>
2008-10-21 7:37 ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-21 16:39 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-10-21 11:04 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-21 16:40 ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-15 17:40 ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-15 2:00 ` Zhu Yi
2008-10-14 9:19 ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-15 1:40 ` Zhu Yi
2008-10-15 15:50 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-10-15 16:01 ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-15 17:29 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-10-15 17:36 ` Johannes Berg
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