Hi Reinette,
A new wireless regulatory API has been added and static definitions of regulatory alpha2 have been removed. As a result of this 5Ghz channels have been disabled by default. Patch takes care of this by setting the regulatory domain by reading the EEPROM contents. It uses regulatory_hint function to dynamically set the regulatory channels. This patch is related to bug 11870 at bugzilla.kernel.org. With correct regulatory information the number of channels to scan will be correct and not zero as seen in that bug. This patch eliminates the need for wireless to be compiled with CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY to get correct regulatory behavior with iwlwifi.
so this is still for 2.6.28, but for 2.6.29 and wireless-testing the API changed and we need a separate or different patch.
John, Dave what is your take on pushing this to Linus this late in the merge window? I personally think we should do that. And if not, then change the Intel wireless Kconfig to select CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY by default at least.
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