On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 13:35 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> Forgot to Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx for this patch during its submission,
> this is needed on 2.6.28 as otherwise there is an issue for Intel
> cards which get their channels 5 GHz disabled if OLD_REG is set to no
> (this is not the default) or the channels 12-14 are disabled if
> OLD_REG is set to yes (default) set to no and the ieee80211_module
> parameter is not used. The later issue is resolved by userspace as
> well but we cannot yet expect 2.6.28 kernels to have enough userspace
> interfaces to set the regulatory domain just yet. This is why OLD_REG
> is still set to default with 2.6.28.
>
> 14b9815af3f4fe0e171ee0c4325c31d2a2c1570b
> Author: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed Nov 12 14:22:03 2008 -0800
>
> cfg80211: add support for custom firmware regulatory solutions
>
> This adds API to cfg80211 to allow wireless drivers to inform
> us if their firmware can handle regulatory considerations *and*
> they cannot map these regulatory domains to an ISO / IEC 3166
> alpha2. In these cases we skip the first regulatory hint instead
> of expecting the driver to build their own regulatory structure,
> providing us with an alpha2, or using the reg_notifier().
>
> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Could you please also add commit
ea4a82dceec7b5782b1259079c8de508d0afe33a? This is the commit that
enables the Intel cards to take advantage of the parameter introduced in
previous commit.
commit ea4a82dceec7b5782b1259079c8de508d0afe33a
Author: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Nov 12 14:22:04 2008 -0800
iwlwifi: enable custom fw regulatory solution
This enables the custom firmware regulatory solution option
on iwlwifi drivers. These devices are uncapable of mapping their
EEPROM regulatory domain to a specific ISO / IEC alpha2.
Although the new 11n devices (>= iwl 5000) have only
3 regultaory SKUs -- MOW, ABG (no N) and BG -- the older
devices (3945 and 4965) have a more complex SKU arrangement
and therefore its not practical to move this to the driver.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
--
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
