Re: [PATCH] ath9k: Allow over-riding reg-domain.

[Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>]

On 2013-03-11 8:51 PM, Ben Greear wrote:
> On 03/11/2013 12:05 PM, John W. Linville wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 09:45:06AM -0700, greearb@candelatech.com wrote:
>>> From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
>>>
>>> Otherwise, can't get the Sparklan AR9380 NICs to be
>>> 5Ghz APs, since they are in world-roaming domain by
>>> default.  Add this to /etc/modprobe.d/ath9k.conf:
>>>
>>> options ath9k override_eeprom_regdomain=0
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
>>
>> Why "=0" to enable it?  Just to make it more confusing?
> 
> You are just setting the country code...and country-code 0 seems
> to at least open up the US regulatory domain so we use it
> by default.
> 
> You can use any country code you wish here.
I'd like to have less fugly module parameter hackery please. How about
either using CONFIG_CFG80211_CERTIFICATION_ONUS the way it was intended,
or adding another config option that makes it bail out of
ath_regd_init_wiphy() early, thus still processing the EEPROM regdomain
hint and not making it binding.

- Felix