On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 08:49 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: > On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 11:17:22PM +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > > >> 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. > > CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY is already 'default y' now. I don't > really see why iwlwifi should _require_ that if someone decides to > choose a non-default configuration. I agree, also, I thought the problem was that iwlwifi misbehaved if there were no active channels in the 5 GHz band and there was a patch to fix that? This can happen _regardless_ of the setting of old regulatory, it just happens that without the setting, the default is no 5 GHz channels, while with it the default has 5 GHz channels. johannes
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