On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 Should we rename NO-IBSS to NO-BEACONS ? This would mean we would not allow IBSS, AP or Mesh. Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
