On 12/16/2013 12:22 PM, Sander Eikelenboom wrote: > > Wednesday, December 11, 2013, 7:38:50 PM, you wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Sander Eikelenboom >> <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> Wednesday, December 11, 2013, 6:53:07 PM, you wrote: >>> >>>> The best way to address all this is by automatic region awareness and >>>> doing the right thing on devices, this however requires good >>>> architecture / calibration data / etc and all that needs to be >>>> verified by the system integrators, and finally they need to be >>>> certified. If you want to hack your firmware and software go at it, >>>> just be aware there are reasons for things. >>> >>> Well the general problem seems to be "we don't trust the user" so we FORCE him to the lowest >>> common denominator (without a way to overrule that) so he is forced to operate *well* within the law. > >> Its simply stupid to have the user be involved, period, the fact that >> a user would be involved should only be for testing or helping >> compliance for a busted device, development, research and obviously >> hacking. Linux allows all these but by default a device with firmware >> and a custom regdomain that will barf if you try to use a channel that >> is not allowed is a restriction in firmware. Feel free to reverse >> engineer that if you don't like it but it just won't be supported or >> go upstream. Now, the common denominator is generally optimized for >> best performance as well so you shouldn't have to do anything, and for >> APs -- this is typically carefully crafted for a region, also highly >> optimized. > >>>>>> It doesn't seem like you are getting your original requests getting >>>>>> processed, so I don't think CRDA is passing it. Can you verify running >>>>>> from CRDA code: >>>>> >>>>> They don't get processed unless i remove the return from the code as i indicated. >>>>> If i remove that return it processes the request. >>>>> >>>>>> ./regdbdump /usr/lib/crda/regulatory.bin >>>>> >>>>> Although it's in a different location on Debian, /lib/crda/regulatory.bin >>>>> the dump seems fine. >>> >>>> OK thanks. Can you send a patch of what exact change you made, it was >>>> unclear from the paste you made. >>> >>>> diff -u file.c.orig file.c >>> >>> Well i just did a pull from wireless-next, to try Avinash Patil's patch. >>> net/wireless/reg.c had already changed much so i couldn't apply his patch without. >>> >>> With his patch it sets the regulatory domain, although as now expected i still can not use channels 12 and 13 yet, >>> probably due to those firmware restrictions. > >> Its unclear what results you got, and yeah if the device is restricted >> then its just the fw telling the driver its channels and you can't use >> them. That's it. You won't be able to override information then unless >> you hack the firmware > > Ping ? > > Is there anymore information you need to *fix* the problem ? Maybe you did not get the essence of the response from Luis: There is *no* problem to be fixed. Gr. AvS -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
