Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:54814 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752401AbYJNVWI (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:22:08 -0400 Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:19:12 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Johannes Berg Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Zhu Yi , "Kolekar, Abhijeet" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: New Regulatory Domain Api. Message-ID: <20081014211912.GF3349@tuxdriver.com> (sfid-20081014_232245_065685_30E4188B) 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> <20081014203510.GD3349@tuxdriver.com> <1224018957.3027.9.camel@johannes.berg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1224018957.3027.9.camel@johannes.berg> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:15:57PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 16:35 -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > > > 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? > > Well, the thing is that the iwlwifi drivers pretend to know the > regulatory domain; thus when a single-band card registers the regulatory > domain, it gets set to just a domain with the single band. Ah, now I see what this is about...thanks! Should there be an "I make no representation of authority" flag in the regulatory maps? -- John W. Linville Linux should be at the core linville@tuxdriver.com of your literate lifestyle.