On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 6:36 AM, John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 04:33:37PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > What is the downside of just turning OLD_REG back on for 2.6.28? >> >> You default to the "US" regulatory domain so channels 12-14 will not >> be available by default. This is also why we offloaded regulatory crap >> to userspace in the first place, so you won't have to upgrade your >> kernel based on reg changes or fixes. >> >> I'll send a patch to enable passive scan on channels 12-14 for the >> world regulatory domain. That and the 5 GHz patch should at least let >> you see channels 12-14 with a fix from userspace. This can also go >> into 28 for the world regulatory domain and since it would be fixing >> an issue maybe we should consider it. >> >> Thoughts John? > > Honestly I don't think it is worth swizzling -stable for this. OK then Tim -- best is to upgrade the userspace wireless-regdb once the patches get merged. 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
