Thread (11 messages) 11 messages, 5 authors, 2006-11-01

Re: [PATCH] wireless-2.6 zd1211rw check against regulatory domain rather than hardcoded value of 11

From: Holden Karau <hidden>
Date: 2006-10-30 17:50:01
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Hi Ulrich,

I'm fairly certain the patch is safe, even for non-US regulatory domains.

Looking at the zd1211rw code the highest channel in the geo object
would appear to be set in zd_geo_init as determined by
zd_channel_range which just does a simple look up in channel_ranges[],
so if this code behaves correctly [and there is no indication it does
not], then setting the upper channel to be that in the geo object
would appear to be safe for any of the supported regulatory domains.

Cheers,

Holden :-)

On 10/30/06, Johannes Berg [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
I'm not so sure about this. This patching might be US-specific and we
cannot simply apply the setting for top channel of another domain
instead of channel 11. One option would be to set the value only under
the US regulatory domain.
??
What the patch does is replace the top channel which is hardcoded to 11
by the top channel given by the current regulatory domain. How can that
be wrong? Except that you may want to init the regulatory domain from
the EEPROM but I'm not sure how the ieee80211 code works wrt. that.

johannes

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