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wireless: fix regression caused by regulatory config option
The default for the regulatory compatibility option is wrong; if you picked the default you ended up with a non-functional wifi system (at least I did on Fedora 9 with iwl4965). I don't think even the October 2008 releases of the various distros has the new userland so clearly the default is wrong, and also we can't just go about deleting this in 2.6.29... Change the default to "y" and also adjust the config text a little to reflect this. This patch fixes regression #11859 With thanks to Johannes Berg for the diagnostics Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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config WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY
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bool "Old wireless static regulatory definitions"
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default n
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default y
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---help---
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This option enables the old static regulatory information
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and uses it within the new framework. This is available
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ieee80211_regdom module parameter. This is being phased out and you
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should stop using them ASAP.
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Say N unless you cannot install a new userspace application
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or have one currently depending on the ieee80211_regdom module
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parameter and cannot port it to use the new userspace interfaces.
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This is scheduled for removal for 2.6.29.
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Say Y unless you have installed a new userspace application.
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Also say Y if have one currently depending on the ieee80211_regdom
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module parameter and cannot port it to use the new userspace
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interfaces.
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config WIRELESS_EXT
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bool "Wireless extensions"

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