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From: Erich Titl <erich.titl@think.ch>
To: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Cc: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: regulatory domain settings overwritten
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:47:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50B623F4.9070309@think.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121128143102.GC23259@localhost>

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Hi Bob

on 28.11.2012 15:31, Bob Copeland wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 08:11:17AM +0100, Erich Titl wrote:
>> Oh, I don't pretend the developers are short sighted, just that the
>> person writing the code sat possibly somewhere in the US midwest and his
>> perception of the world might be restricted to the county border, been
>> there, seen it. The driver IMHO should be written in a way that it can
>> meet the local regulatory law, and the default should not be US imposed
>> by the driver.
> 
> For what it's worth, the ath5k author lives in Greece :P

Thanks for the info, well Greece has some more things to do right now
than to worry about a wireless driver :P

> 
> (Well, actually this code came from ath9k which is pretty much from the
> horse's mouth...)

Yes, it is pretty universal across the ath range. Do you know how other
implementations handle this situation, or is it just the Atheros (or
CM9) EEPROM that is undecided?

Thanks

Erich



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      reply	other threads:[~2012-11-28 14:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-27  7:50 regulatory domain settings overwritten Erich Titl
2012-11-27  9:55 ` Julian Calaby
2012-11-27 10:27   ` Christian Lamparter
2012-11-27 10:30     ` Julian Calaby
2012-11-27 12:53   ` Erich Titl
2012-11-27 22:55     ` Julian Calaby
2012-11-28  7:11       ` Erich Titl
2012-11-28  8:18         ` Julian Calaby
2012-11-28 14:43           ` Erich Titl
2012-11-28 22:01             ` Julian Calaby
2012-11-28 22:11               ` Erich Titl
2012-11-28 14:31         ` Bob Copeland
2012-11-28 14:47           ` Erich Titl [this message]

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