On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
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On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Krishna Chaitanya
[off-list ref] wrote:

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On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 3:28 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez
[off-list ref] wrote:

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On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Krishna Chaitanya
[off-list ref] wrote:

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https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/trunk/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/005-make-genregdb.awk-skip-antenna-gain.patch?rev=40296

This just ignores antenna gain as it was useless.

That actually fixes the issue of setting tx power :-). In the new
db.txt format there
is tx power is not present, so the awk script parses the tx power as
antenna gain.

Is this patch not upstream? Or do you mean that the db.txt format
causes an issue for 3.10 kernels which do not have this patch when the
internal regdb is used? If so that's a good corner case that I had not
considered -- the removal of the antenna gain for future releases of
db.txt obviously would have had an impact on older kernels with an awk
script expecting something different.

Right, this patch is not upstream. Current kernels do not work with
new db.txt format when itnernal regdb is enabled.

We need a solution for this and thanks for reporting this. Since we
have to support both for older kernels I think we will need to modify
the awk script to pick up on the differences... that's the only thing
I can think of. That or break the db.txt to not work with older
kernels, but we don't want that... Can you hack up a solution now that
I've identified the issue? Otherwise I can look at it soon.

I plan to submit a patch for awk script which can handle both db.txt formats
but could not execute it.

Will try to submit a hack soon.