From: "Peer, Ilan" <ilan.peer@intel.com>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v3 6/6] mac80211: Enable initiating radiation on indoor
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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 15:28:29 +0000
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I'll abandon this change ... 

Thanks,

Ilan.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luis R. Rodriguez [mailto:mcgrof@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Luis R.
> Rodriguez
> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 02:15
> To: Peer, Ilan
> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org; wireless-regdb@lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/6] mac80211: Enable initiating radiation on indoor
> channels
> 
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 12:21:58PM +0200, Ilan Peer wrote:
> > Allow active scanning and frame injection on channels marked with
> > IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_IR iff the channel is also marked with
> > IEEE80211_CHAN_INDOOR_ONLY and the wireless core thinks that it
> > operates in an indoor environment.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ilan Peer <ilan.peer@intel.com>
> 
> I don't see why being indoor should allow to override the NO-IR flag. I do see
> however why being indoor should enable to IR if you are IR if you have the
> indoor flag. Enabling to IR if you are indoor for all NO-IR channels is... pretty
> permissive I do not see the correlation.
> 

Make sense. I did not have such relaxations defined, just thought that similar relaxations could also be used in cases of scanning etc. but I guess this is not always true.