From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Harald Welte Subject: Re: [RFC] Geographical/regulatory information for ieee80211 Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 08:17:28 -0300 Message-ID: <20060428111727.GC5196@rama> References: <443EF3E9.7050303@lwfinger.net> <20060415174734.GA10595@infradead.org> <4443D694.8090809@hp.com> <44501647.8070308@lwfinger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="4ZLFUWh1odzi/v6L" Cc: Rick Jones , Christoph Hellwig , netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from ganesha.gnumonks.org ([213.95.27.120]:62854 "EHLO ganesha.gnumonks.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751376AbWD1WmI (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Apr 2006 18:42:08 -0400 Received: from uucp by ganesha.gnumonks.org with local-bsmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1FZbf5-0001CL-4h for netdev@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 00:42:07 +0200 To: Larry Finger Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44501647.8070308@lwfinger.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --4ZLFUWh1odzi/v6L Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 07:54:31PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > I am leaning toward putting the geographical information into a > userland daemon.=20 I like that idea very much. This is all control metadate that doesn't really need to be in the kernel. > That way we won't have to patch the kernel every time a country > modifies its regulations.=20 that's another advantage. > In addition, the kernel will be smaller. The downside is that the > daemon will have to be updated and supplied in some convenient form, > perhaps as part of a wireless tools package. Ideally the daemon would get the table of country restrictions from a policy file (some human-readable ascii?). That file can then be downloaded by a cronjob to keep it updated, if desired. A bit like the PCI/USB device id databases... --=20 - Harald Welte http://gnumonks.org/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D "Privacy in residential applications is a desirable marketing option." (ETSI EN 300 175-7 Ch. A6) --4ZLFUWh1odzi/v6L Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEUfnHXaXGVTD0i/8RAjihAJ4j9TecscXasCfwHQHIRMECG75h0ACeIdNm JR2ULURmRSzR08QXuvEQIIo= =KUNl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --4ZLFUWh1odzi/v6L--