From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CRDA and ath5k with no country code in EEPROM
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:41:35 +0200
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	(Luis R. Rodriguez's message of "Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:00:47 -0700")
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"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com> writes:

>> So what exactly do I change? Can the regulatory.bin change the default
>> country?
>
> Huh?
>
>> Remember I need to be compliant to the US freq sets as well - when the
>> regdomain is set to US. IOW I can't allow the user operating the device
>> to set e.g. channel 12 when the user selects country=US (so there is a
>> big difference between country 0=US and the real country=US).
>
> Huh?

Not sure what do you mean. Are my expectations unrealistic?

>> But the driver says:
>> ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x0
>> ath: EEPROM indicates default country code should be used
>> ath: doing EEPROM country->regdmn map search
>> ath: country maps to regdmn code: 0x3a
>> ath: Country alpha2 being used: US
>> ath: Regpair used: 0x3a
>>
>> At least for the driver 0 doesn't mean US, it means "default country".
>> Perhaps the meaning of "default country" depends on maybe location of
>> the hw and/or sw manufacturer?
>
> I just pointed to some documentation for you which indicated 0x0 means
> "US".

Yes, but the meaning depends on the POV. What is important to me is what
does that mean to a) the software I use, b) the hardware I use (cards).
The driver doesn't say 0=US, perhaps it should? Then things would be
very different.
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Krzysztof Halasa