From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Cc: johannes@sipsolutions.net, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] cfg80211/mac80211: Add 802.11d support
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:19:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081110191925.GK3546@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1226097635-9555-1-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com>
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 02:40:35PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> This adds country IE parsing to mac80211 and enables its usage
> within the new regulatory infrastructure in cfg80211. We parse
> the country IEs only on management beacons for the BSSID you are
> associated to and disregard the IEs when the country and environment
> (indoor, outdoor, any) matches the already processed country IE.
>
> To avoid following misinformed or outdated APs we build and use
> a regulatory domain out of the intersection between what the AP
> provides us on the country IE and what CRDA is aware is allowed
> on the same country.
>
> A secondary device is allowed to follow only the same country IE
> as it make no sense for two devices on a system to be in two
> different countries.
>
> In the case the AP is using country IEs for an incorrect country
> the user may help compliance further by setting the regulatory
> domain before or after the IE is parsed and in that case another
> intersection will be performed.
>
> CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY is supported but requires CRDA
> present.
>
> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
> ---
>
> This addresses Johannes' latest feedback. It replaces 3/3
> of my last series.
I'm sorry, but I see four different series w/ similar titles but
with at least some difference in patches between them. Could you
just repost a singled unified patch series for 802.11d?
Thanks,
John
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-10 19:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-07 22:40 [PATCH v4] cfg80211/mac80211: Add 802.11d support Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-11-10 18:04 ` Johannes Berg
2008-11-10 19:19 ` John W. Linville [this message]
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