#16862: faulty regdomains: Follup to #16818, #9678
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Reporter: anonymous | Owner: developers
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: high | Milestone: Chaos Calmer (trunk)
Component: base | Version: Trunk
system | Keywords: ETSI WORLD US AT DE EU channel 12
Resolution: | 13 14
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Comment (by anonymous):
Currently broken:
http://downloads.openwrt.org/barrier_breaker/14.07-rc3/ar71xx/generic/config.ar71xx_generic
# CONFIG_ATH_USER_REGD is not set
...
# CONFIG_PACKAGE_ATH_DFS is not set
This means, this firmware will violate the regulatory in most European
countries for 5GHz-Devices, while being compliant to the US markets.
Furthermore channels valid in the EU markets are not working by default.
For those users in the EU, that are not capable of compiling images oder
using the image generator, using current snapshots would be illegal.
Those users in the EU trying the lift the problems with jow reghack will
need smaller firmware images, as the reghack consumes additional flash
memory in rootfs_data.
A possible and quick solution would be to separate build (rc and stable
release) snapshots for EU, US and JP.
Some hardware manufactureres do it alike: they offer various firmwares for
different markets.
Another solution could be to enhance the image builder, not to include the
precompiled wireless drivers from kernel but to compile them -and only
them- separately at image builders's runtime for a given regulatory; this
would also save compile time and would allow for a combination with the
previous proposal.
e.g.:
make image PROFILE="TLWR1043" DEFAULT_REGDOMAIN="DE"
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/16862#comment:12>
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