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Re: [PATCH] wireless: update regulatory sample code

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On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 07:40 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

> > > Should we mention how currently this should be avoided unless
> > > your regulatory definition is also intersected with hw capabilities
> > > and that the same channels are the ones that are registered to cfg80211?
> 
> Well rd hint for when we provide a structure, that code right now
> disregards when initiator == USER, and this works well only for
> when the driver sending the rd struct hint also only registered
> to cfg80211 the channels its legally capable of. If a driver
> which does not use reg_notifier() and registers *all* of its channels
> uses this then the USER set regdom will be used and *all* channels
> will be left intact.

No, only those that are available from CRDA will be used. And this is
totally irrelevant in the case where this applies anyway because the
Intel drivers register only the channels from their eeprom, the same set
they hint at. Yet it's still unrelated.

johannes

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