Re: Changing the way we handle region codes on Linux (public thread)

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 09:45:29AM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I think that sums it up.
> >
> > I personally still like the idea of pushing the vendor-specific
> > codes out to user space and having psuedo-country codes for
> > those (e.g. "ATH_37").  Then the driver doesn't need all of the
> > static rules loaded all the time and it would drop a lot of
> > policy code from the driver.  CRDA could be enhanced to load
> > multiple databases, one for pure iso-3166 codes, one with
> > Atheros codes, one with Intel, etc.

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> But with that said -- I think the region-code scheme is overly complex
> and am not sure if aiding it is something we should focus energy and
> resources on. It would seem better to me to focus on more cleaner
> solutions and leave that old stuff as legacy solutions.

That's the thing about "legacy" stuff -- it doesn't go away just from
ignoring it!

FWIW, I think Bob's suggestion makes a lot of sense.

John
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