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Re: invalid regdomain: 0x5c (was: problem with D-Link DWA-160)

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On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez
<lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 5:23 AM, Christian Lamparter
> <chunkeey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wednesday 06 April 2011 05:26:28 Joe Culler wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> I have a problem with carl9170 driver with my d-link dwa-160 under
>>> linux-2.6.39-rc1.
>>> Here's the dmesg:
>>
>>> [ 3114.257063] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x5c
>>> [ 3114.257066] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
>>> [ 3114.257069] ath: invalid regulatory domain/country code 0x5c
>>> [ 3114.257071] ath: Invalid EEPROM contents
>> clearly, the regdomain code 0x5c is not defined in the
>> drivers/net/wireless/ath/regd_common.h => regDomainPairs struct.
>>
>> this would be easy to fix [see attached patch], however I'm
>> not quite sure what to do about the 5GHz band in this case,
>> since the CTL_FCC is more restrictive than it should be.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Â Â Â ÂChr
>>
>> ---
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/regd_common.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/regd_common.h
>> index 248c670..5c2cfe6 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/regd_common.h
>> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/regd_common.h
>> @@ -195,6 +195,7 @@ static struct reg_dmn_pair_mapping regDomainPairs[] = {
>> Â Â Â Â{APL9_WORLD, CTL_ETSI, CTL_ETSI},
>>
>> Â Â Â Â{APL3_FCCA, CTL_FCC, CTL_FCC},
>> + Â Â Â {APL7_FCCA, CTL_FCC, CTL_FCC},
>> Â Â Â Â{APL1_ETSIC, CTL_FCC, CTL_ETSI},
>> Â Â Â Â{APL2_ETSIC, CTL_FCC, CTL_ETSI},
>> Â Â Â Â{APL2_APLD, CTL_FCC, NO_CTL},
>
> I verified internally with our other code and this is correct, APL7
> maps to FCC CTL and FCCA maps to FCC CTL as well. For an upstream
> patch:
>
> Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Oh and please Cc stable@xxxxxxxxxx, thanks a lot!

  Luis
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