On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:34:22PM -0800, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 08:31 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 01:25:21AM -0800, Johannes Berg wrote: > > > On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 16:12 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > > When a driver issues a regulatory_hint() lets save the received > > > > values as original channel settings. This allows users to change > > > > regulatory domains multiple times while always respecting the driver's > > > > own regulatory setings. > > > > > > This definitely isn't the right way to do things here. This means that > > > my card that's programmed to US can never do channel 13 here, something > > > which on b43 we definitely want to allow. > > > > Ah -- are you sure you want to allow for that? > > Yes. > > > It seems I was misunderstanding a bit > > how things would be done for 11d in ath9k and the fact is that we *don't* allow > > for channels beyond what the programmed regulatory domain allows. This is because > > calibration stuff has only been tested/ensured/certified/call-it-what you want > > for the channels in that regulatory domain SKU. > > Yes, I know why you want this, but I think you should do it slightly > differently. > > > Are you certain that b43 can operate > > well on channels not in their regulatory domain SKU? If so then how about a wiphy flag > > to let drivers pick this. > > I don't see a need for a flag. Well in ath9k we want this, and orig_* stuff is used only for custom regulatory domains. How would we install information on orig_* from a regulatory_hint() on drivers if we have drivres which may or may not want to save that information on orig_* parameters? > We just need to have the driver set > orig_flags rather than cfg80211, no? Oh you mean in the reg_notifier() on REGDOM_SET_BY_DRIVER? Sure, that works as well, if so desired. 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
