From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us
Subject: Re: [RFC] Geographical/regulatory information for ieee80211
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 18:47:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060415174734.GA10595@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <443EF3E9.7050303@lwfinger.net>
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 07:59:21PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> I am planning on writing a new routine to be added to
> net/ieee80211/ieee80211_geo.c that will populate an ieee80211_geo object
> given a country code. The new routine will eliminate the need for each
> driver to do their own.
This sounds like a generally good idea, but the question is: do we want
this inside a kernel module or in userspace, either like the regulartory
daemon intel has (unfortunately in binary only form) or as a simple init
script. I really don't want to recompile my kernel just because regulations
changed, and they seems to do that quite often.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-15 17:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-14 0:59 [RFC] Geographical/regulatory information for ieee80211 Larry Finger
2006-04-14 11:41 ` Ulrich Kunitz
2006-04-14 11:58 ` Faidon Liambotis
2006-04-14 15:27 ` Jouni Malinen
2006-04-14 20:01 ` Larry Finger
2006-04-15 17:07 ` Faidon Liambotis
2006-04-15 17:47 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2006-04-17 17:55 ` Rick Jones
2006-04-27 0:54 ` Larry Finger
2006-04-28 11:17 ` Harald Welte
2006-04-29 0:31 ` Jouni Malinen
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