On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 14:25 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
>
>> The idea was ask troubled user to make change in modprobe.conf and not
>> changing the code.
>
> Yeah but IMHO you're solving the wrong problem. If we want any
> credibility we shouldn't allow users to ignore any regdom that easily,
> and this is system-wide. Also, iwlwifi partly caused this problem in the
> first place by printing out eeprom channels rather than having users use
> "iwlist wlan0 channel" to see which channels are usable. Or even iw,
> which shows you which are disabled.
Unfortunately iwlist channel gives very little information about
channels and iw is not distributed by any distro as far as I know.
Here is little patch to help iw be more useful.
--- a/iw.c
+++ b/iw.c
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ static void usage(char *argv0)
fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %1$s dev <phydev> <OBJECT> <COMMAND> [OPTIONS]"
"\n %1$s dev <phydev> info\n"
"\n"
- "where OBJECT := { interface | station | mpath }\n"
+ "where OBJECT := { interface | station | mpath
| info }\n"
"and COMMAND := { add | del | set | get | dump }\n",
argv0);
}
Tomas
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