From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from [12.19.149.2] ([12.19.149.2]:62266 "EHLO mail.atheros.com" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751107Ab0HWRvX (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:51:23 -0400 Received: from mail.atheros.com ([10.10.20.108]) by sidewinder.atheros.com for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:51:19 -0700 Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:46:20 -0700 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: Bastien Nocera CC: Luis Rodriguez , Johannes Berg , Kevin Hayes , David Quan , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "geoclue@lists.freedesktop.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] iw: add GeoClue support Message-ID: <20100823174620.GA12375@tux> References: <1282350556-16523-1-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> <1282572681.3813.3.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> <1282579507.3405.130.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" In-Reply-To: <1282579507.3405.130.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 09:05:07AM -0700, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 08:44 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > > > What use is a command line tool that has to talk to a whole bunch of > > > daemons etc.? > > > > The current implementation doesn't talk to deamons. The hostip > > provider within GeoClue and it will just trigger a URL get. If > > desktops start implementing a master server though then the query > > would simply be a cached response. > > Note that this error carries on in the mail. There is a master provider > for Geoclue that can make use of whatever providers are available, but > it's not in too good a shape. I see, can you elaborate on that a little? > I'd rather somebody started fixing the Geoclue master provider rather > than relying on a particular service, especially when the D-Bus API for > the providers themselves is something we don't want to support in the > longer term. Would the master provider not use Dbus for gypsy, for example? Luis