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Re: [RFC 1/2] cfg80211/mac80211: add regulatory_hint_found_beacon() to make help world roaming

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On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 21:01 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> This adds some initial intelligence to help world roaming. When we
>> are world roaming we have no idea what country we are in yet and
>> because of this our regulatory domain will be pretty restrictive.
>> Country information elements help and we have code to handle that already,
>> however, not many APs enable country IEs. We can help the situation
>> by adding checks on ours scans for beacons from APs, if we are world roaming
>> and an AP beacon is found on a channel we will make the bet that we can
>> also beacon and do active scanning -- when not on radar channels.
>>
>> Since this goes in as part of cfg80211 all devices present will benefit
>> from any device's found beacons, this includes new devices connected or
>> when you disconnect and reconnect the same device.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> NACK. If we do this _after_ cfg80211 scanning it becomes so much
> simpler.

How's that coming along?

  Luis
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