Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:49:57 -0500 | From | "Holden Karau" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] wireless-2.6 zd1211rw check against regulatory domain rather than hardcoded value of 11 |
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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 <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote: > > > 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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