Re: [PATCH 1/2 v5] cfg80211: Add new wireless regulatoryinfrastructure

From: Luis R. Rodriguez
Date: Tue Sep 09 2008 - 01:48:22 EST


On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 07:33:14PM -0700, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> can we get a small document in Documentation/ that describes what has to
> be done for CRDA. That would help to ease the adaption and would allow
> us to point people to it. Nothing fancy, but some quick notes where to
> find it and what to put where.

Sure, I'm putting this together now.

> > Each driver can regulatory_hint() a regulatory domain
> > based on either their EEPROM mapped regulatory domain value to a
> > respective ISO/IEC 3166-1 country code or pass an internally built
> > regulatory domain. We also add support to let the user set the
> > regulatory domain through userspace in case of faulty EEPROMs to
> > further help compliance.
>
> Do we have an example for all the possible ways? I think about something
> to help driver maintainers to move over and use the infrastructure the
> right way.

The only case I didn't test was the case for Intel's drivers, all other
drivers would use regulatory_hint() based on an alpha2 and that worked
swell. I found some issues with the case of providing a built regulatory
domain so I'm updating it now and am also updating some other parts of the
code for the old regulatory infrastructure, it seems there were a few
obvious issues we didn't catch there yet.

I hope to have the new doc for you with a few fixes and an example as to
what Intel drivers can do soon. I was hoping to get it all done by today but
that didn't happen.

Luis
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