Subject: Re: wireless-regdb: flaw in general functionality
From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Cc: Richard Farina <sidhayn@gmail.com>,
	John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
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Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:21:23 -0500
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On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 15:12 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

> Your point about not being able to listen is a good one, and a patch to
> update the the US in consideration of part 15 rules would be
> appreciated. Keep in mind we have flags for such things:
> 
>   -Passive scan
>   -No-IBSS
> 
> We should probably rename no-ibss to no-beaconing though as that is the
> real meaning inention behind it. 

Maybe you mean no-transmit?  I don't think seeing an AP transmitting on
a wrong frequency is an excuse for doing the same.  At least in some
jurisdictions.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin