Return-path: Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.128.184]:12406 "EHLO fk-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752670AbYJPA5W (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:57:22 -0400 Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id 18so2907834fkq.5 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:57:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1ba2fa240810151757r11060dfble6b58c76a7d0d8d1@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20081016_025730_080228_647AB0AF) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:57:20 +0200 From: "Tomas Winkler" To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Subject: Re: New Regulatory Domain Api. Cc: "Luis Rodriguez" , "Marcel Holtmann" , "Johannes Berg" , "John W. Linville" , "Zhu Yi" , "Kolekar, Abhijeet" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" In-Reply-To: <20081015174447.GF15902@tesla> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <1224086374.735.4.camel@johannes.berg> <43e72e890810151039s34ad8d79nd2744847dd254b4e@mail.gmail.com> <1224092868.28173.21.camel@californication> <20081015112517.GF6509@tesla> <1224098748.28173.32.camel@californication> <20081015131622.GH6509@tesla> <1ba2fa240810151631t37edc367hfe59c76926c7b82e@mail.gmail.com> <20081015170830.GA15902@tesla> <1ba2fa240810151735t100ceda5s7fe7b495f735c507@mail.gmail.com> <20081015174447.GF15902@tesla> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 05:35:44PM -0700, Tomas Winkler wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez >> > The issue was your single band cards do not store 5 GHz band regulatory >> > information. Is this MOW1 or MOW2? >> >> Don't understand the question, the 5GHz channels are disabled that's >> all you can read from there. > > Oh OK so its not just MOW1 and MOW2 but you also *do* take into account > the card's capabilities. > >> > It certainly helps more understand your situation. I had no idea >> > of MOW1 and MOW2. Can this be documented as part of the >> > regulatory_hint() code changes which will be added? >> >> I've just checked current docs and from 5000 on inclusively there are >> only 3 SKU's MOW, ABG (no N) and BG. All others were depreciated. > > Interesting.. Are these SKUs also used on other platforms as well, say > for Windows? Definitely It's not defined specially for Linux market. And you may sense that this is also station mode specific. In AP mode probably the story would be different. > Anyway since you only have 3 this should be very simple to resolve... > Just add the 5 GHz frequency ranges you always support. Obviously the BG > card will not be able to make use of them :) It's ugly but possible w/a but we still have 3945 and 4965 where it is not so simple. Tomas