Thread (17 messages) 17 messages, 5 authors, 2008-09-26

Re: [PATCH] iwl3945: added channel sysfs entry

From: Zhu Yi <hidden>
Date: 2008-09-26 05:28:48

On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 21:13 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY is a temporary solution, the right
solution for you is to build the regulatory domain with the provided
API as discussed at OLS. Additionally distributions can start picking
up iw and crda. I can also see NetworkManager asking the kernel to set
the regulatory domain just as with iw, based on the user's defined
country somewhere.
You brought it up. And I also want to discuss it. We do want to support
it. But the 3945/4965/5000 hardwares doesn't have the alpha2 information
in their EEPROMs (btw, 2100/2200 does support that). Instead, they have
a band/channel table including freq, tx power, etc in the EEPROM. So a
simple regulatory_hint() API doesn't work. We need a way to export the
channel details to CRDA.

Thanks,
-yi
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