Re: CRDA and ath5k with no country code in EEPROM

[Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>]

"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com> writes:

> My point was that this is not something meant to be interpreted by
> anyone for what "default country" means, the documentation I pointed
> out clearly states that 0x0 is designed to mean to match the "US" by
> Atheros hardware as per hardware documentation provided to ODMs.

I understand this, but the reality is that I have to work with hardware
and software, not with the docs provided by Atheros to some other
parties.

Software (the official Atheros driver, to be precise) says 0 isn't
exactly US.
Hardware (card) manufacturer says 0 isn't US.

What do you think can I do?

I obviously would go the regulatory.bin way, if it was possible. But
I think regulatory.bin simply describes frequencies etc. valid in
different countries, and if the file contains correct data (and it seems
it does), there is nothing I can "fix" there.

For now I think the best I can do is to add
CONFIG_*80211_DEFAULT_COUNTRY (with default = "US"), and to treat 0 as
this DEFAULT_COUNTRY. This way I don't enable users to disobey the rules
(more than they're already able, since they can patch and recompile
anyway), and at the same time I don't put the (inappropriate for many
people) default country in the sources.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa