[wireless-regdb] differing world regulary domain (linux kernel builtin vs. crda)

[John W. Linville]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 04:56:23PM +0100, Ronald Wahl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> on "Thu May 16 17:06:52 EDT 2013" Johannes Berg posted a message on
> that list with the subject "[PATCH] regulatory: enable channels
> 52-64 and 100-144 for world roaming" which has been later applied to
> the kernel but not in the official regdb. Now the sitiuation is this
> that the built-in world regulatory domain has a greater frequency
> range than the world regulatory domain installed by crda (albeit for
> passive scanning only). Unfortunately the built-in is not used when
> crda is installed. I'm very much interested in getting this change
> into the official regdb as it allows finding and accessing wireless
> networks with unprovisioned wireless devices that are otherwise not
> detected. Is there any reason why the additional channels cannot be
> added for regdomain 00 in the official regdb?
> 
> thx,
> ron
> 
> PS: Please keep me in Cc:!

Someone needs to post a patch...

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