Return-path: Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:54350 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757247Ab2CHVmP (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2012 16:42:15 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 15:42:06 -0600 From: Seth Forshee To: Arend van Spriel Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , "Quan, David" , "Green, Michael" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , Johannes Berg Subject: Re: Problems with regulatory domain support and BCM43224 Message-ID: <20120308214205.GB13667@ubuntu-macmini> (sfid-20120308_224219_176746_66963D9D) References: <20120308174101.GB28133@ubuntu-macmini> <4B96CD77D9161244899852B5F20DB5B70125BB72@nasanexd02d.na.qualcomm.com> <4B96CD77D9161244899852B5F20DB5B70125BC94@nasanexd02d.na.qualcomm.com> <20120308200734.GC28133@ubuntu-macmini> <4F591E14.4010000@broadcom.com> <4F592542.7000005@broadcom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <4F592542.7000005@broadcom.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 10:31:46PM +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote: > >>Noticed your email yesterday, but did not get to chime into the > >>conversation. brcmsmac does indeed provide a regulatory hint, which is > >>either from SPROM or hard-coded to "US". Since "X0" is not a known > >>regulatory domain for crda it does not make sense to pass it as a regulatory > >>hint. However, the "full" story is told on linuxwireless.org (see [1]). > > > >The Linux kernel allows you to define custom regulatory domains, the > >ath module uses these, it defines 13 of them. You can review that code > >for an example of how to use them. So your X0 can still be used, you > >just have to define the data structure. > > > > Thanks, Luis > > I will dive into that. Luis, Arend, thanks to both of you. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help. Seth