Return-path: Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.46.31]:35919 "EHLO yw-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757808AbYJ3Rnn (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:43:43 -0400 Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 9so297644ywe.1 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:43:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <43e72e890810301043g17c2867cn8023c9a170bd5487@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20081030_184408_208311_9D183EF5) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:43:41 -0700 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: "Johannes Berg" Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] cfg80211: enable 5 GHz band for world regulatory domain Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1225387137.3690.70.camel@johannes.berg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 References: <1225329594-21704-1-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> <1225329594-21704-2-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> <1225329594-21704-3-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> <1225329594-21704-4-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> <1225329594-21704-5-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> <1225329594-21704-6-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> <1225329594-21704-7-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> <53ad401862d734b26836f0706a394525.squirrel@secure.sipsolutions.net> <43e72e890810300909if0e2db1qf5ff8512ab760275@mail.gmail.com> <1225387137.3690.70.camel@johannes.berg> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 09:09 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Johannes Berg >> wrote: >> > Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> >> Technically speaking since some countries do not support >> >> some channels in 5 GHz the world regulatory domain should not >> >> use them however APs should *not* be shipped in those countries >> >> which don't allow 5 GHz operation. Because of this we can >> >> safely assume we operate correctly in STA mode by forcing >> >> passive scan and disabling ad-hoc in 5 GHz. We leave out >> >> all DFS channels as we don't support DFS yet. >> > >> > No, this is incorrect. The linux kernel can well act as an AP. >> >> An AP would/should not want to use the world regulatory domain though :) > > Yeah but if a user just starts hostapd without crda then we shouldn't > allow it to operate in 5GHz Should we rename NO-IBSS to NO-BEACONS ? This would mean we would not allow IBSS, AP or Mesh. Luis