From 3ec48039326f218b1edad9da74b1694f722da7f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org> Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 19:32:01 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: respect user-set regulatory domain by default It turns out most device vendors don't set the correct country code in their devices' on-flash-EEPROM sections as they apparently rather provide a complete per-target-market firmware with patched drivers instead of just setting the country code. This results in the driver to incorrectly assume the value stored in the on-flash-EERPOM (usually US or China) being the regulatory domain inside which the device is being used. To work around this issue, OpenWrt introduced the ATH_USER_REGD config variable to decide during build whether or not to allow the user to override the regulatory domain setting. This option, however, is not enabled by default and thus ends up being disabled for snapshots builds and released binaries. As we know for a long time that most devices got borked regulatory domain values set in their EEPROMs we should allow our users to respect their local law (instead of just assume US or China laws). Note that also the current default has great potential of users not ever setting their regulatory domain and thus using inapproriate and potentially illegal frequencies and/or tx-power settings Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org> --- package/kernel/mac80211/Makefile | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/package/kernel/mac80211/Makefile b/package/kernel/mac80211/Makefile index 340ea38180..acd5e283dc 100644 --- a/package/kernel/mac80211/Makefile +++ b/package/kernel/mac80211/Makefile @@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ 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 -- GitLab