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Re: mac80211: ibss.c, missing regdom check?

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On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 17:55 +0200, Alexander Simon wrote:

> When we want to join an IBSS, we first fire a scan. When a network is
> found, then we join it.
> This happens in ieee80211_sta_find_ibss when we call
> ieee80211_sta_join_ibss.
> 
> But in both functions there is no check if we are allowed to do IBSS on
> that channel.
> Is this intended?
> I could join an existing network on channel 8 with a modified crda
> having the NO-IBSS flag on all 2.4GHz channels.

Sounds like there ought to be a check -- but what do we do in that case?
Just create the network elsewhere and hope the other one merges? Luis?

johannes

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