On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 17:50 -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:27:42PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 17:19 -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > > > > Should there be an "I make no representation of authority" flag in > > > the regulatory maps? > > > > The only reasonable solution I can come up with is have it make separate > > hints for 2.4 and 5 GHz and then a single-band card won't say anything > > about 5 GHz so the dual-band gets to set that part. But OTOH I don't see > > a reasonable use-case for this whole thing so far---we really only added > > this after discussions with Marcel at OLS so embedded systems can > > function w/o crda, but who would build an embedded system with two > > different cards like that? > > And couldn't such a person also do the equivalent of the OLD_REGULATORY > stuff that we have now? Could even just write a trivial app that once during boot requests a setting from the kernel and then sets it. Kinda like iw reg set XY and the resulting crda call rolled in one. johannes
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