Return-path: Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.152]:9321 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755853Ab0C3Stf (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:49:35 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 19so206176fgg.1 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:49:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Christian Lamparter To: Krzysztof Halasa Subject: Re: CRDA and ath5k with no country code in EEPROM Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:49:23 +0200 Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org References: <43e72e891003300928qdd70de4vc7585d7e19d36dca@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <201003302049.24231.chunkeey@googlemail.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tuesday 30 March 2010 20:21:36 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > "Luis R. Rodriguez" writes: > > > My point was that this is not something meant to be interpreted by > > anyone for what "default country" means, the documentation I pointed > > out clearly states that 0x0 is designed to mean to match the "US" by > > Atheros hardware as per hardware documentation provided to ODMs. > > I understand this, but the reality is that I have to work with hardware > and software, not with the docs provided by Atheros to some other > parties. > > Software (the official Atheros driver, to be precise) says 0 isn't > exactly US. > Hardware (card) manufacturer says 0 isn't US. Are you sure, you (or the hw manufacturer for that matter) didn't confuse the country code with regdomain code? because while they have more or less the same function, they do have different mappings. The 0x00 country code is reserved for the FCC (US), while the 0x00 regdomain code is a described as "debug" with supposedly no limitations?! Regards, Chr