On 06/12/2013 11:52 AM, Kalle Valo wrote:
Bing Zhao <bzhao@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Hi Kalle,
From: Avinash Patil <patila@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Allow a regulatory domain country code to be specified at boot
using a module argument. This overrides the firmware regulatory
mode.
This patch also enables uAP to operate in 11a mode with hostapd.
Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul Stewart <pstew@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@xxxxxxxxxxx>
This looks ugly. Why can't you use the proper nl80211 interface and
instead want to add a driver specific hack?
"iw reg set XX" or "country_code=XX" in hostapd.conf is a *user* hint.
What we need here is a *driver* hint. Furthermore, with a driver
regulatory hint, the passive-scan and no-ibss flags are cleared so we
can start AP with hostapd on 5G band.
So it's a driver hint which is coming from user space via a module
parameter. IMHO you are abusing interfaces here. Is there any better way
to solve your problem?
It would be nice to have some way to do this for ath9k and other NICs
as well. Best I could come up with is a similar hack for ath9k.
I think part of the problem is that this config info needs to be
available very early in the module loading/init logic, so it's
too late to be configured using 'iw' or similar.
Thanks,
Ben
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Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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