From: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com>
CC: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>,
	Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>,
	Yogesh Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com>,
	Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>,
	Frank Huang <frankh@marvell.com>,
	Paul Stewart <pstew@chromium.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:43:19 -0700
Subject: RE: [PATCH] mwifiex: Add module parameter for regdomain
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Hi Kalle,

> > From: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>
> >
> > Allow a regulatory domain country code to be specified at boot
> > using a module argument.  This overrides the firmware regulatory
> > mode.
> >
> > This patch also enables uAP to operate in 11a mode with hostapd.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Stewart <pstew@chromium.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
> 
> This looks ugly. Why can't you use the proper nl80211 interface and
> instead want to add a driver specific hack?

"iw reg set XX" or "country_code=XX" in hostapd.conf is a *user* hint.
What we need here is a *driver* hint.
Furthermore, with a driver regulatory hint, the passive-scan and no-ibss flags are cleared so we can start AP with hostapd on 5G band.

Thanks,
Bing

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> Kalle Valo