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Re: New Regulatory Domain Api.

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On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:15:57PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 16:35 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> 
> > That doesn't sound like quite the correct behavior.  If a channel is
> > excluded for regulatory reasons, then I suspect that should govern
> > everyone.  But if one card just doesn't support a band, I don't see
> > why any other cards should be limited by that.
> > 
> > Did I miss something?
> 
> Well, the thing is that the iwlwifi drivers pretend to know the
> regulatory domain; thus when a single-band card registers the regulatory
> domain, it gets set to just a domain with the single band.

Ah, now I see what this is about...thanks!

Should there be an "I make no representation of authority" flag in
the regulatory maps?

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