Return-path: Received: from mail-ey0-f174.google.com ([209.85.215.174]:36993 "EHLO mail-ey0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757323Ab2FOVv6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:51:58 -0400 Received: by eaak11 with SMTP id k11so1062730eaa.19 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:51:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Erwin Van de Velde To: linux-wireless Cc: Schrober Subject: Re: ath9k bug in country domain handling Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 23:51:54 +0200 Message-ID: <1425745.oeb9uPtGCl@sylvesterjr.cmi.ua.ac.be> (sfid-20120615_235201_230700_266518A2) In-Reply-To: <3396938.ZAv4RZqcUo@sven-desktop.home.narfation.org> References: <9709270.9fbk3VIit7@sylvesterjr.cmi.ua.ac.be> <3396938.ZAv4RZqcUo@sven-desktop.home.narfation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Friday 15 June 2012 21:00:23 Schrober wrote: > On Wednesday 13 June 2012 13:17:49 Erwin Van de Velde wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > I have 802.11n cards with an atheros chipset with no default country > > domain. Upon initialization, crda is set to US domain, after which I try > > to change it to another domain, the driver only accepts further > > limitations: i.e. if a channel is allowed in the US but not in Belgium, > > it is disabled, but the other way round: if a channel is not allowed in > > the US, but is allowed in Belgium it is not enabled. > > That is not a bug, but something we call restriction. > What? It definitely is a bug, since it restricts something that should not be restricted in Belgium. I am talking about channels you are allowed to use in Belgium, which get disabled by the driver. How can this not be a bug? If I call crda for the BE domain, I expect to get _all_ channels that are allowed in Belgium, not just some. Regards, Erwin