Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:50:50 -0400
From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>,
	Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>,
	"Kolekar, Abhijeet" <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>,
	"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: New Regulatory Domain Api.
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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:

> > Should there be an "I make no representation of authority" flag in
> > the regulatory maps?
> 
> The only reasonable solution I can come up with is have it make separate
> 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 see
> a reasonable use-case for this whole thing so far---we really only added
> 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?

And couldn't such a person also do the equivalent of the OLD_REGULATORY
stuff that we have now?

John
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