From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail.atheros.com ([12.36.123.2]:20977 "EHLO mail.atheros.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756389AbZAPVNo (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:13:44 -0500 Received: from mail.atheros.com ([10.10.20.108]) by sidewinder.atheros.com for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:13:44 -0800 Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:13:15 -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: <20090116211315.GN29609@tesla> (sfid-20090116_221349_023341_EFD36433) 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> <20090116164004.GH29609@tesla> <1232138328.3745.13.camel@johannes> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" In-Reply-To: <1232138328.3745.13.camel@johannes> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:38:48PM -0800, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 08:40 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > 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. > > I think it should work w/o this, yeah, and I also think we should follow > the 11d hint if it restricts us further rather than just ignoring it. I concur, will test (with OLD_REG and without it, jeesh). Luis