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Re: [PATCH 6/6] cfg80211: enable 5 GHz band for world regulatory domain

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On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 09:09 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Johannes Berg
> <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> >> Technically speaking since some countries do not support
> >> some channels in 5 GHz the world regulatory domain should not
> >> use them however APs should *not* be shipped in those countries
> >> which don't allow 5 GHz operation. Because of this we can
> >> safely assume we operate correctly in STA mode by forcing
> >> passive scan and disabling ad-hoc in 5 GHz. We leave out
> >> all DFS channels as we don't support DFS yet.
> >
> > No,  this is incorrect. The linux kernel can well act as an AP.
> 
> An AP would/should not want to use the world regulatory domain though :)

Yeah but if a user just starts hostapd without crda then we shouldn't
allow it to operate in 5GHz

johannes

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