Return-path: Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.175]:29610 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750978AbYKFOyI (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2008 09:54:08 -0500 Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 27so715888wfd.4 for ; Thu, 06 Nov 2008 06:54:06 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <1ba2fa240811060654w3c55bbc3ufb242a322ab5207e@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20081106_155431_787184_435DA2BC) Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 16:54:06 +0200 From: "Tomas Winkler" To: "Johannes Berg" Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 2.6.28] iwlwifi : Fix channel scanning/association in 5Ghz band Cc: "John W. Linville" , "Marcel Holtmann" , "Reinette Chatre" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, "Abhijeet Kolekar" , "Zhu Yi" In-Reply-To: <1225983103.3619.242.camel@johannes.berg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 References: <1225912449-26625-1-git-send-email-reinette.chatre@intel.com> <20081106134950.GB14184@tuxdriver.com> <1225982253.3619.233.camel@johannes.berg> <1ba2fa240811060647x688f1efp1728e5f80dbb6b35@mail.gmail.com> <1225983103.3619.242.camel@johannes.berg> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 16:47 +0200, Tomas Winkler wrote: > >> The problem with missing A band is that this info was supplied to >> driver too late. after registration otherwise >> the iwlwifi dealt properly with missing band This was change in design >> that wasn't reflected in the driver. >> >> This can happen _regardless_ of the setting of old regulatory, >> >> With old regulatory the channel was known prior to registration > > Ah, you mean the driver wasn't updated (and previously not prepared) to > handle changing regulatory information? Yep. Tomas