Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932134AbWBYW2h (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:28:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932145AbWBYW2g (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:28:36 -0500 Received: from cac94-1-81-57-151-96.fbx.proxad.net ([81.57.151.96]:33694 "EHLO localhost") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932134AbWBYW2f (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:28:35 -0500 Message-ID: <4400DA0B.1060502@free.fr> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 23:28:27 +0100 From: matthieu castet User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060205 Debian/1.7.12-1.1 X-Accept-Language: fr-fr, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Stoffel CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Announce] Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection References: <43FF88E6.6020603@linux.intel.com> <20060225084139.GB22109@infradead.org> <200602250549.47547.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <17408.55266.948833.168988@smtp.charter.net> In-Reply-To: <17408.55266.948833.168988@smtp.charter.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1293 Lines: 34 Hi, John Stoffel wrote: >>>>>>"Matthieu" == Matthieu CASTET writes: > > > Matthieu> I will say, why not put the restriction of the firmware > Matthieu> binary blob ? It run on the device so it will be difficult > Matthieu> for people to analyse it. > > So what do I do when I take my US laptop and fly to country X, which > has comletely different rules for these radios? Do I have to re-flash > my firmware to make it work properly? > And what happen with the userspace binary blob ? How it will know in which country you are ? Does it access to a secret GPS on your computer ? So there are 2 solutions : - make the card work only for a country with a flag in a RO eeprom or in another place in the hardware (firmware, ....). - make the card works on all the possible channels. Also if the firmware need to be load each time you reset the card (this is the case with the current ipw2xxx implementation), you won't notice if you switch for a firmware for a country X to a firmware for a country Y. Matthieu - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/