Thanks to all that responded to my earlier RFC. A number of changes in my thinking are based on
those comments, which came from Christoph Hellwig, Rick Jones, Ulrich Kunitz, Faidon Liambotis,
Jouni Malinen, and Harald Welte. The important points of my proposal are as follows:
* The database will be maintained as a text file to be processed by a userland daemon that will
transform this database into the data structure needed by the ieee80211 code. In addition to the
regulatory data, this file will also contain the information needed for the daemon to set the size
of its data arrays dynamically.
* A new routine (ieee80211_init_geo ?) will be written to be called by the driver to load the geo
structure into the kernel. Information passed to the daemon will be the country code in ASCII and
whether the interface is to be used indoors or outdoors.
* Checksum routines will be used to validate the data base. Such a simple scheme will not inhibit
anyone with moderate skills from hacking the channel/power settings, but such hacking will require
some effort.
* Each channel in the resulting kernel data structure will have appropriate flags set indicating if
it is to be used indoors, outdoors, or both. In addition, if the channel should be used only for
passive scanning, a suitable flag will be set. In the 2.4 GHz band, a flag will indicate if it
should be used for 802.11b, otherwise both b and g mode will be assumed. In the 5.0 GHz bands, a
flag will be set if the channel is to conform with 802.11h or 802.11a standards.
The database consists of two sections. The first relates the Country Codes to a wireless group. The
second section describes the channel parameters for the groups. Shown below is a fragment showing
the Country Code - Group info for a few countries and the definitions for a few of the groups.
Please send me any comments, etc.
Larry
===================================================================
# text file for IEEE80211 Regulatory/Geographical information
#
# Version of 04 May 2006
#
# Information for dynamic array sizing
#
Number of Countries: 100
Number of Groups: 15
#
# Countries listed first
#
# group Country Code Description
#
1 AT Austria (Standard EU)
1 DE Germany (Standard EU)
2 FRI France Indoor (Not Guyana or La Reunion)
3 FRO France Outdoor (Not Guyana or La Reunion)
4 FR1 French Departments of Guyana and La Reunion Indoor
5 FR2 French Departments of Guyana and La Reunion Outdoor
.
.
.
9 US United States (FCC)
#
#
# Groups follow countries
#
Group 0 - Unspecified Country
#
# Band Ch. Range Ch. Spacing Power Flags
#
# Band - b, bg, a, or h
# Ch. Range - Minimum and Maximum Channels for this range
# Ch. Spacing - Number of channels between adjacent entries
# Power in mW EIRP
# Flag Codes
# B - Both Indoor and Outdoor
# I - Indoor Only
# O - Outdoor Only
# P - Passive Scan Only
#
bg 1 - 11 1 100 B
#
Group 1 - General European Union (EU)
#
bg 1 - 13 1 100 B
h 36 - 40 4 200 I
h 52 - 64 4 200 IP
h 100 - 140 4 1000 BP
#
Group 2 - France Indoor (Not Guyana or La Reunion)
#
bg 1 - 13 1 100 I
h 36 - 48 4 200 I
h 52 - 64 4 200 IP
h 100 - 140 4 1000 IP
#
Group 3 - France Outdoor (Not Guyana or La Reunion)
#
bg 1 - 8 1 100 O
bg 9 - 13 1 10 O
h 100 - 140 4 1000 OP
.
.
.
.
#
Group 9 - US (FCC)
#
bg 1 - 11 1 100 B
a 36 - 40 4 200 I
a 52 - 64 4 200 B
a 149 - 161 4 1000 B
#
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