Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:50152 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935038Ab0GPAq7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:46:59 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:46:58 -0400 From: Kyle McMartin To: "John W. Linville" Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, mcgrof@gmail.com, kyle@parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [RFC] wireless: only use alpha2 regulatory information from country IE Message-ID: <20100716004658.GG10884@bombadil.infradead.org> References: <1279220807-18245-1-git-send-email-linville@tuxdriver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1279220807-18245-1-git-send-email-linville@tuxdriver.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 03:06:47PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > The meaning and/or usage of the country IE is somewhat poorly defined. > In practice, this means that regulatory rulesets in a country IE are > often incomplete and might be untrustworthy. This removes the code > associated with interpreting those rulesets while preserving respect > for country "alpha2" codes also contained in the country IE. > > Signed-off-by: John W. Linville > --- > This patch is compile-tested only! Please feel free to suggest that > I have left something out or missed some nuance of our regulatory > enforcement code... > Building it now...