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