On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tuesday 30 March 2010 20:21:36 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: >> "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> > My point was that this is not something meant to be interpreted by >> > anyone for what "default country" means, the documentation I pointed >> > out clearly states that 0x0 is designed to mean to match the "US" by >> > Atheros hardware as per hardware documentation provided to ODMs. >> >> I understand this, but the reality is that I have to work with hardware >> and software, not with the docs provided by Atheros to some other >> parties. >> >> Software (the official Atheros driver, to be precise) says 0 isn't >> exactly US. >> Hardware (card) manufacturer says 0 isn't US. > > Are you sure, you (or the hw manufacturer for that matter) didn't confuse > the country code with regdomain code? > > because while they have more or less the same function, they do have different > mappings. The 0x00 country code is reserved for the FCC (US), while the 0x00 > regdomain code is a described as "debug" with supposedly no limitations?! That debug regulatory domain is not a valid regulatory domain supported in the field, it was a debug hack. It is simply not a regulatory domain which ODMs / OEMs calibrate their cards for. 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
