Re: ieee80211_regdom module parameter for cfg80211

["Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 01:31:52PM -0800, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 15:29 -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> > On at least one forum, I have seen the recommendation that a user set their
> > regulatory domain by creating the file /etc/modprobe.d/cfg80211 with the
> > contents "ieee80211_regdom=US".
> > 
> > That works as long as CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY is set in their .config,
> > but will fail if it is not.
> > 
> > Should the module_param statement be moved outside the ifdef
> > CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD...? Setting the module parameter that way might not make any
> > sense, but it surely shouldn't kill wireless.
> 
> I actually see no reason to not just /honour/ it by calling crda with
> its parameter if CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY isn't set.

The idea was that things we want to get rid of will go in OLD_REG. Static regdoms
for US, JP and EU fall into that and so does the module parameter. I believe
it is silly to keep the module parameter around as we already have userspace
APIs to let users set this.

  Luis