From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
To: "Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] cfg80211: enable 5 GHz band for world regulatory domain
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:43:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43e72e890810301043g17c2867cn8023c9a170bd5487@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1225387137.3690.70.camel@johannes.berg>
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 09:09 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Johannes Berg
>> <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
>> > Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> >> Technically speaking since some countries do not support
>> >> some channels in 5 GHz the world regulatory domain should not
>> >> use them however APs should *not* be shipped in those countries
>> >> which don't allow 5 GHz operation. Because of this we can
>> >> safely assume we operate correctly in STA mode by forcing
>> >> passive scan and disabling ad-hoc in 5 GHz. We leave out
>> >> all DFS channels as we don't support DFS yet.
>> >
>> > No, this is incorrect. The linux kernel can well act as an AP.
>>
>> An AP would/should not want to use the world regulatory domain though :)
>
> Yeah but if a user just starts hostapd without crda then we shouldn't
> allow it to operate in 5GHz
Should we rename NO-IBSS to NO-BEACONS ? This would mean we would not
allow IBSS, AP or Mesh.
Luis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-30 17:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-30 1:19 [PATCH 0/6] cfg80211: few regulatory updates Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-30 1:19 ` [PATCH 1/6] cfg80211: a reg rule is invalid if freq diff is 0 Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-30 1:19 ` [PATCH 2/6] cfg80211: Add regulatory domain intersection capability Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-30 1:19 ` [PATCH 3/6] cfg80211: make print_regdomain_info() static Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-30 1:19 ` [PATCH 4/6] cfg80211: make use of reg macros on REG_RULE Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-30 1:19 ` [PATCH 5/6] cfg80211: Add kdoc for struct regulatory_request Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-30 1:19 ` [PATCH 6/6] cfg80211: enable 5 GHz band for world regulatory domain Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-30 9:24 ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-30 16:09 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-30 17:18 ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-30 17:43 ` Luis R. Rodriguez [this message]
2008-10-30 18:12 ` Jouni Malinen
2008-10-30 9:22 ` [PATCH 1/6] cfg80211: a reg rule is invalid if freq diff is 0 Johannes Berg
2008-10-30 19:40 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
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