From: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Cc: wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Regulatory info in mac80211
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:44:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <466CB6F6.1020706@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <466A2383.50001@gentoo.org>
Daniel Drake wrote:
> Larry Finger wrote:
>> 5. There should be a scheme for translating country codes based on the
>> outdated table 105 in Corrigendum 1 for 802.11b. This is the basis for
>> the EEPROM data in the ZD1211 hardware. Note, this scheme is far too
>> limited to be the only one available. If the translation code is
>> needed for more than one driver, it should be placed in mac80211.
>
> You might wish to treat the fact that the ZD1211 EEPROM regdomain field
> appears to correspond to the 802.11b specs as just a coincidence. Some
> newer devices have regdomain values that are not in that table (and are
> not even mentioned in the vendor driver...)
That was my intent from the start. The two European countries (France and Spain) that are mentioned
in that table have the wrong channels assigned; however, if some driver asked for either of those
regions, we will supply the channel data that is current today.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-11 2:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-05 20:51 RFC: Regulatory info in mac80211 Larry Finger
2007-06-05 23:35 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2007-06-05 23:54 ` Iñaky Pérez-González
2007-06-06 4:18 ` Dan Williams
2007-06-07 7:10 ` Stefano Brivio
2007-06-07 18:52 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2007-06-07 19:27 ` stefano.brivio
2007-06-07 21:35 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2007-06-09 3:50 ` Daniel Drake
2007-06-11 2:44 ` Larry Finger [this message]
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2007-06-06 10:00 Joerg Pommnitz
2007-06-06 11:41 ` Johannes Berg
2007-06-06 13:46 ` Larry Finger
2007-06-06 12:14 Joerg Pommnitz
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