> to improve a driver that was buggy for many years that I hacked in a way that made it work awesome but would never be accepted upstream because it violated FC

> to improve a driver that was buggy for many years that I hacked in a way that made it work awesome but would never be accepted upstream because it violated FCC regulations Now I want to know more! Was it a misbehaving wifi? Did it violate the spirit, or the letter of the regulations? I've had the opposite problem, trying to make a card respect FCC regulations (ieee80211_regdom=US) while its firmware seems to have another country hardcoded. I think it would be far better to use regdom=US instead of letting the card do whatever's ok in the country the card believes it's still operating in, yet it would also "violate" FCC regulations to let me write into its firmware that it should follow US rules by default from now on. ebay + a worldwide market + "can't trust people to change the firmware" = problems I wish there was more flexibility in the drivers to correct such misbehaviors, because I believe most people want to do the right things.