Re: Revert: ath: add support for special 0x0 regulatory domain
From: Alvin Šipraga <hidden>
Date: 2021-08-24 08:01:02
On 8/23/21 11:06 PM, Brian Norris wrote:
On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 1:19 PM Andrey Skvortsov [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
On 21-08-23 10:23, Brian Norris wrote:quoted
Maybe it needs an Nth person to submit a revert?Later (Dec 23, 2020) said "Actually I don't see how I could apply the revert due to the regulatory problems explained by Jouni". [1] I think this could be the date when your patch was marked as Rejected. 1. http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/ath10k/2020-December/012370.html>>Oh wow, I almost forgot about that... Too many threads. I also forgot that I already replied, expressing my disagreement: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/ath10k/2020-December/012372.html>> But I guess it's not really expected that mainline Linux really works as-is on most products, unfortunately, and the maintainers don't have enough time or energy to provide constructive paths forward on real issues like this :(
Jouni gave a good explanation for why the offending patch is correct, but it hinges on an interpretation of country code 0x0 which seems to be incorrect. I followed up on that almost a year ago here[1] but the thread went cold after that. Numerous people - myself included - have cited sources clearly indicating that 0x0 = US, NOT unset. See the same post[1] for more info. I still think this patch should be reverted unless somebody can provide a source to the contrary, re: the meaning of 0x0. It's unfortunate that this is still affecting users, particularly when the original author of the patch even asked for it to be reverted.[2] Alvin [1] https://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/ath10k/2021-January/012374.html [2] https://lore.kernel.org/ath10k/9cc7efbb3c9b29e4553a427e6f58725f@codeaurora.org/