Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:47668 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751454AbYJNV5l (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:57:41 -0400 Subject: Re: New Regulatory Domain Api. From: Johannes Berg To: "John W. Linville" Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Zhu Yi , "Kolekar, Abhijeet" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" In-Reply-To: <20081014215050.GG3349@tuxdriver.com> References: <1223608949.2510.1061.camel@debian.sh.intel.com> <43e72e890810100949i78c1d813x1b66c6bc0239ef28@mail.gmail.com> <1223967581.2570.144.camel@debian.sh.intel.com> <43e72e890810140004k6bfa72edsf39acbafcf317fa6@mail.gmail.com> <1223969808.2570.153.camel@debian.sh.intel.com> <43e72e890810140204ne135e72kefe379dd3d26f7bc@mail.gmail.com> <20081014203510.GD3349@tuxdriver.com> <1224018957.3027.9.camel@johannes.berg> <20081014211912.GF3349@tuxdriver.com> <1224019662.3027.13.camel@johannes.berg> <20081014215050.GG3349@tuxdriver.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-ZyZZ918/akh2pLvn94df" Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:57:02 +0200 Message-Id: <1224021422.3027.15.camel@johannes.berg> (sfid-20081014_235744_460591_235D7614) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-ZyZZ918/akh2pLvn94df Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 17:50 -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:27:42PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 17:19 -0400, John W. Linville wrote: >=20 > > > Should there be an "I make no representation of authority" flag in > > > the regulatory maps? > >=20 > > The only reasonable solution I can come up with is have it make separat= e > > hints for 2.4 and 5 GHz and then a single-band card won't say anything > > about 5 GHz so the dual-band gets to set that part. But OTOH I don't se= e > > a reasonable use-case for this whole thing so far---we really only adde= d > > this after discussions with Marcel at OLS so embedded systems can > > function w/o crda, but who would build an embedded system with two > > different cards like that? >=20 > And couldn't such a person also do the equivalent of the OLD_REGULATORY > stuff that we have now? Could even just write a trivial app that once during boot requests a setting from the kernel and then sets it. Kinda like iw reg set XY and the resulting crda call rolled in one. johannes --=-ZyZZ918/akh2pLvn94df Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJI9RWqAAoJEKVg1VMiehFY/+AQAKbS7TaD1B8Fz8cwrA9PwZvp jNjPZ3aKzOUMr2N3lFS6sONOhLHO+fjwnX4oFF4GNnddeu9YwMcQFVqUjC8FbWhz Jdy2zu4V8Zmgfyy8U6bUQBGQSzOc3gzBkBH0t+SC3xtXH4w01nIdftxx2Lp5WipI UvODi495xwqgfFcJjcQQ1Ido0/gQr0tG5kREeI6vmrckambt+Y6o3QkvgwGxbJg+ mswyANtXXxWzyJJYlYOqvbzGqlUc1zefFB0lF2CR3Rf036z2ltGHpDIwkwKNp/BP y9CYQ2750fzKOmfbK/PUb0fqZVEKhBW8AZpU6Og1Uo1h76UyNueCtdTnV0q9uNOW aumWPLmi9OkrSEo/Pit4lA7NG+CGM0kHokUEEVVyvFdfRyVEHfDXbbptb/EvmUMZ 5m67kpMeY4AJKATCExJOw5YUCFVT7WQBHhPLhTXXgbC7GK1mCEdMZ7q6XRuYkqwo 2OXBmSZrTdp0gOOcPsPkboyK8fyNM74t4IjtcgAKsZUpP1DB/gbnjlwGsffqsGg2 xCC3EEOOVlCQbKEXUDODx4G+qD8UV5TG6LRrxYA2ySfoTa6uCgADW2UPi4jZlB1n 87bRIA1U+gK51ESwz5M5HlhkU4TfK84v4gES37Dw6m3YDUapBiXSt8Wej9ByVKcv y3xeUhB2gpJXzvw6Pffx =ryud -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-ZyZZ918/akh2pLvn94df--