From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stuffed Crust Subject: Re: wireless: recap of current issues (configuration) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:41:14 -0500 Message-ID: <20060117184114.GB20298@shaftnet.org> References: <20060113221935.GJ16166@tuxdriver.com> <1137191522.2520.63.camel@localhost> <20060114011726.GA19950@shaftnet.org> <43C97605.9030907@pobox.com> <20060115152034.GA1722@shaftnet.org> <20060116170951.GA8596@shaftnet.org> <20060116190629.GB5529@tuxdriver.com> <1137450281.15553.87.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="eAbsdosE1cNLO4uF" Cc: "John W. Linville" , Samuel Ortiz , Jeff Garzik , Johannes Berg , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: Alan Cox Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1137450281.15553.87.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --eAbsdosE1cNLO4uF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 10:24:41PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > If I have told my equipment to obey UK law I expect it to do so. If I > hop on the train to France and forget to revise my configuration I'd > prefer it also believed the APs It's not that you might forget to revise your configuration, but that=20 the vast majority of users will not revise anything, and still expect=20 things to "just work". Kind of like multi-band cell phones. =20 This isn't that big of a deal in the 2.4GHz band, but when you start talking about 5GHz, especially in France, things get a lot trickier. Of course, all of this automagic "just work" crap only affects the STAs.=20 For AP operation, we have to trust the user to set the correct locale -- I don't see any way of including a sane "just-works" default in the stock kernel.org tree, so I think the default should be be "none". This way the user is forced to explicitly set the regdomain in order for the AP startup to succeed. =2E..and pray that the AP isn't migrating to a different regdomain, but=20 there's really nothing anyone can do about that. - Solomon --=20 Solomon Peachy ICQ: 1318344 Melbourne, FL =20 Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. --eAbsdosE1cNLO4uF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDzTpKPuLgii2759ARAgO4AJ9CD7o+BR/IqBN8UhpANGQBstW2sACggIUA vTd3Ct+uIXzCoaTrMycNhAw= =oR+o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --eAbsdosE1cNLO4uF--