Re: ieee80211_regdom module parameter for cfg80211

[Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>]

Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> 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.

I guess we leave it the way it is. At least the only people that will get caught
are those that upgrade their distro. A clean install should redo the /etc/...
tree and do away with such modifications.

Larry