From: Marcel Holtmann <holtmann@linux.intel.com>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, johannes@sipsolutions.net,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 v6] cfg80211: Add new wireless regulatory infrastructure
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:25:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1221085537.13336.34.camel@californication> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43e72e890809101518k35047191hac8b796383a5638@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Luis,
> >> > While reading through it, I came to think about regulatory_hint(). So is
> >> > there a use case where would give it the alpha2 code and the domain
> >> > itself at the same time? If not, then it would make more sense to split
> >> > this into two functions.
> >>
> >> Nope, you either pass an alpha2 or an rd domain which is built by you
> >> (and in that rd structure you can set the alpha2 to your iso3166
> >> alpha2 or "99" if unknown).
> >>
> >> > Maybe something regulatory_alpha2_hint() and
> >> > regulatory_domain_hint(). Just a thought.
> >>
> >> That's how I had it originally but decided to condense it to one
> >> routine since as you could see they pretty much do the same thing
> >> except the case where the rd is provided it calls set_regdom().
> >> Setting it back to use two routines if fine by me too. What is better?
> >> Can we just get this merged and then we can flip it around if
> >> necessary? :) I'm tired of carrying this around.
> >
> > my take on this is that if from an API perspective you can only use one
> > parameter or the other, then it should be two functions.
>
> This is reasonable, I'll respin, yet once again...
get an agreement with Johannes on the naming. Either _alpha2_hint() or
_hint_alpha2(). Not sure what the others are preferring.
Regards
Marcel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-10 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-10 6:19 [PATCH 0/2 v6] New regulatory infrastructure for cfg80211 and drivers Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-09-10 6:19 ` [PATCH 1/2 v6] cfg80211: Add new wireless regulatory infrastructure Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-09-10 6:19 ` [PATCH 2/2 v6] zd1211rw: make use of new regulatory_hint() Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-09-10 18:17 ` [PATCH 1/2 v6] cfg80211: Add new wireless regulatory infrastructure Marcel Holtmann
2008-09-10 20:18 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-09-10 22:07 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-09-10 22:18 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-09-10 22:25 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2008-09-10 22:30 ` Johannes Berg
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