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Re: [PATCH 02/13] cfg80211: add option for wiphys to disregard country IEs

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On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 08:40 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 01:17:12AM -0800, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 16:12 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > > Country IEs can be disregarded based on regulatory policy by
> > > a driver. This is only possible, of course, if the driver already
> > > has its own regulatory domain.
> > 
> > Can you say why? This doesn't seem useful to me.
> 
> Its based on our internal regulatory policy for our hardware. If you have
> a alpha2 map you should disregard the country IE. If you have a world regdom
> you can follow the IE (but not enable more). Technically I think that without
> this things may work now to respect the original driver stuff though with the
> new orig_* changes, will need to test.

I think it should work w/o this, yeah, and I also think we should follow
the 11d hint if it restricts us further rather than just ignoring it.

johannes

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