Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:57642 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751342AbYJNUh5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:37:57 -0400 Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:35:10 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: Zhu Yi , "Kolekar, Abhijeet" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: New Regulatory Domain Api. Message-ID: <20081014203510.GD3349@tuxdriver.com> (sfid-20081014_223802_063949_1D8CE891) References: <20081009154547.GB13349@tesla> <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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <43e72e890810140204ne135e72kefe379dd3d26f7bc@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 02:04:50AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > The question which I thought was being asked was if you have two cards > present, one a dual band card 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz and another a single > band 2.4 GHz card what happens in terms of regulatory rules. What I'm > suggesting should happen is the intersection of their regulatory rules > should be applied and in this case only the 2.4 GHz channels that work > on both cards should be used. What currently happens is the regulatory > rules of the first card detected takes effect. That doesn't sound like quite the correct behavior. If a channel is excluded for regulatory reasons, then I suspect that should govern everyone. But if one card just doesn't support a band, I don't see why any other cards should be limited by that. Did I miss something? John -- John W. Linville Linux should be at the core linville@tuxdriver.com of your literate lifestyle.