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Re: The new regulatory code kills my wireless

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On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 06:51:13PM +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Johannes,
> 
> > > I am pretty happy that you caught it, because that was my whole point
> > > from the discussion we had at OLS. The userspace part might not be in
> > > place and we must ensure that everything still works as before :)
> > 
> > I thought your point was that you wanted regulatory_hint_regdom(...)
> > that the driver can use to tell us what the EEPROM regulatory is, which
> > wouldn't have been affected by this bug :) But anyway, yeah, it's a bug.
> 
> of course I want regulatory_hint_regdom :)
> 
> I was just trying to make clear how important it is to make sure we work
> with a broken userspace or without userspace support at all

Which is, of course, why I asked Luis to implement the compatibility
option, and why I decided to let it cook for a bit in wireless-testing
before sending it to Dave for net-next-2.6... :-)

John
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