From: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Geographical/regulatory information for ieee80211
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 08:17:28 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060428111727.GC5196@rama> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44501647.8070308@lwfinger.net>
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On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 07:54:31PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> I am leaning toward putting the geographical information into a
> userland daemon.
I like that idea very much. This is all control metadate that doesn't
really need to be in the kernel.
> That way we won't have to patch the kernel every time a country
> modifies its regulations.
that's another advantage.
> In addition, the kernel will be smaller. The downside is that the
> daemon will have to be updated and supplied in some convenient form,
> perhaps as part of a wireless tools package.
Ideally the daemon would get the table of country restrictions from a
policy file (some human-readable ascii?). That file can then be
downloaded by a cronjob to keep it updated, if desired. A bit like the
PCI/USB device id databases...
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- Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> http://gnumonks.org/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-28 22:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-14 0:59 [RFC] Geographical/regulatory information for ieee80211 Larry Finger
2006-04-14 11:41 ` Ulrich Kunitz
2006-04-14 11:58 ` Faidon Liambotis
2006-04-14 15:27 ` Jouni Malinen
2006-04-14 20:01 ` Larry Finger
2006-04-15 17:07 ` Faidon Liambotis
2006-04-15 17:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-04-17 17:55 ` Rick Jones
2006-04-27 0:54 ` Larry Finger
2006-04-28 11:17 ` Harald Welte [this message]
2006-04-29 0:31 ` Jouni Malinen
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