On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 02:40:35PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > This adds country IE parsing to mac80211 and enables its usage > within the new regulatory infrastructure in cfg80211. We parse > the country IEs only on management beacons for the BSSID you are > associated to and disregard the IEs when the country and environment > (indoor, outdoor, any) matches the already processed country IE. > > To avoid following misinformed or outdated APs we build and use > a regulatory domain out of the intersection between what the AP > provides us on the country IE and what CRDA is aware is allowed > on the same country. > > A secondary device is allowed to follow only the same country IE > as it make no sense for two devices on a system to be in two > different countries. > > In the case the AP is using country IEs for an incorrect country > the user may help compliance further by setting the regulatory > domain before or after the IE is parsed and in that case another > intersection will be performed. > > CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY is supported but requires CRDA > present. > > Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > This addresses Johannes' latest feedback. It replaces 3/3 > of my last series. I'm sorry, but I see four different series w/ similar titles but with at least some difference in patches between them. Could you just repost a singled unified patch series for 802.11d? Thanks, John -- John W. Linville Linux should be at the core linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx of your literate lifestyle. -- 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
