Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>,
	Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
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From: Marcel Holtmann <holtmann@linux.intel.com>
To: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 2.6.28] iwlwifi : Fix channel scanning/association in 5Ghz band
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 23:17:22 +0100
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Hi Reinette,

> A new wireless regulatory API has been added and
> static definitions of regulatory alpha2 have been removed.
> As a result of this 5Ghz channels have been disabled by default.
> Patch takes care of this by setting the regulatory domain
> by reading the EEPROM contents.
> It uses regulatory_hint function to dynamically set the regulatory
> channels.
>
> This patch is related to bug 11870 at bugzilla.kernel.org. With
> correct regulatory information the number of channels to scan
> will be correct and not zero as seen in that bug.
>
> This patch eliminates the need for wireless to be compiled with
> CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY to get correct regulatory behavior with
> iwlwifi.

so this is still for 2.6.28, but for 2.6.29 and wireless-testing the  
API changed and we need a separate or different patch.

John, Dave what is your take on pushing this to Linus this late in the  
merge window? I personally think we should do that. And if not, then  
change the Intel wireless Kconfig to select  
CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY by default at least.

Regards

Marcel