[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] mac80211: Force Atheros drivers to respect the user's regdomain settings by default

[bkil]

Actually, I wanted to ask why we were forced to default settings in
the last couple of years. Some forum thread indicated that it was an
FCC imposed restriction regarding distribution in the USA.

The OEM firmware had always allowed country and channel selection from
the dropdown menu, and the EEPROM setting mostly contains zero anyway.

I had even considered forking OpenWRT because of this, but that seemed
a bit silly just for this single little change.

On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Jiri Pirko <jiri at resnulli.us> wrote:
> User's regdomain should know the correct setting. So change default for
> ath drivers to respect those.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri at resnulli.us>
> ---
>  package/kernel/mac80211/Makefile | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/package/kernel/mac80211/Makefile b/package/kernel/mac80211/Makefile
> index f3fe6c7..e145109 100644
> --- a/package/kernel/mac80211/Makefile
> +++ b/package/kernel/mac80211/Makefile
> @@ -504,6 +504,7 @@ define KernelPackage/ath/config
>    if PACKAGE_kmod-ath
>         config ATH_USER_REGD
>                 bool "Force Atheros drivers to respect the user's regdomain settings"
> +               default y
>                 help
>                   Atheros' idea of regulatory handling is that the EEPROM of the card defines
>                   the regulatory limits and the user is only allowed to restrict the settings
> --
> 1.9.3
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