Re: Question on 'iw reg get/set'

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 09:42:54AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> On 07/02/2010 07:12 AM, John W. Linville wrote:

> >The ath9k driver is setting its own regulatory restrictions based on
> >its EEPROM.  Setting the domain from userland can only further restrict
> >the regulatory settings.  The '98' value represents a synthesized
> >regulatory domain, based on the intersection of the available source
> >of regulatory information (which can include the EEPROM, the userland
> >setting, and a country IE from your AP).
> 
> Is there any way to get/set these raw settings (like, whatever it has in EEPROM)?
> 
> I expect we may ship some of these systems overseas, and would like the flexibility
> to set the country-code for testing purposes, if nothing else.

I'll leave it to the Atheros guys to address this.

> Is there any documentation as to what '98' really means, or do we just ignore that
> value and look at the info printed out after that?

'98' pretty much means "look at the info" :-)

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