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Re: New Regulatory Domain Api.

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On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 23:46 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

> Sure but an issue here is that if we do deal with band-specific
> regulatory domain definitions we change the regulatory behavior from
> being "disallow everything first" to "allow everything first, disable
> everything in the band for which we encounter a rule in except what
> the rule allows".
> 
> Since the regulatory definitions in db.txt are in KHz we are allowing
> it to grow as more technology pops up with support for more bands. I
> think the first approach was better. The current suggestion of only
> applying rules if a band reg definition is present is only to deal
> with a rare case. I think its better we try to handle that instead and
> keep our existing behaviour.

Ack on both points, which is why I said "If we're going to [...]". I
don't think I've seen a convincing use case for this other than test
environments, in which you can very well just use crda.

johannes

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