From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:53236 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753450Ab0GBRAL (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jul 2010 13:00:11 -0400 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 12:48:00 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Ben Greear Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Question on 'iw reg get/set' Message-ID: <20100702164759.GE2381@tuxdriver.com> References: <4C2CFAEB.9070302@candelatech.com> <20100702141216.GB2381@tuxdriver.com> <4C2E170E.6040207@candelatech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <4C2E170E.6040207@candelatech.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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" :-) -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.