From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail.atheros.com ([12.36.123.2]:47293 "EHLO mail.atheros.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754266AbZAPQkd (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:40:33 -0500 Received: from mail.atheros.com ([10.10.20.108]) by sidewinder.atheros.com for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:40:33 -0800 Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:40:04 -0800 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: Johannes Berg CC: Luis Rodriguez , "linville@tuxdriver.com" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/13] cfg80211: add option for wiphys to disregard country IEs Message-ID: <20090116164004.GH29609@tesla> (sfid-20090116_174038_259295_F72DAB2A) 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" In-Reply-To: <1232097432.3854.15.camel@johannes> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. > > Can you say why? This doesn't seem useful to me. 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 regdom you can follow the IE (but not enable more). Technically I think that without this things may work now to respect the original driver stuff though with the new orig_* changes, will need to test. Luis