Return-path: Received: from mail-pw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:39476 "EHLO mail-pw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755399Ab0C1XqT (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:46:19 -0400 Received: by pwi5 with SMTP id 5so6191030pwi.19 for ; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:46:19 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:45:59 -0700 Message-ID: <43e72e891003281645m1da47a1en882df4432733977d@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: CRDA and ath5k with no country code in EEPROM To: Krzysztof Halasa Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure I get it right: > I have an ath5k card without a country code in EEPROM. I think such card > is supposed to not force any additional restrictions, am I wrong? > The problem is "no country code" is effectively equal to US, i.e. it's > forcing additional US restrictions no matter what the actual regdomain > is. > > Linux 2.6.33. > > ath5k 0000:00:0d.0: registered as 'phy0' > ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x0 I've documented this specific case here: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath/#The_0x0_regulatory_domain Luis