From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
To: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [regression] ath5k: Overrides regulatory domain set for cfg80211
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 00:10:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43e72e890907090010y2ebd4f2bvd5fe5612084fe6df@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200907090905.27154.hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Holger
Schurig<hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de> wrote:
>> Eventually, as you will read from the feature-removal
>> schedule, we intend on getting the Linux desktop to provide
>> automatic hints of the user's location through things like
>> GeoClue.
>
> Please think about embedded people. We don't need no stinkin'
> geoclue. We'll need a kernel parameter or an commant for "iw" or
> some other netlink based command.
Note I wrote "Linux desktop" not Linux embedded. And we already have a
nl80211 command for this exact purpose. You can even use
wpa_supplicant if you don't want to use iw.
I wouldn't be surprised to see geoclue in embedded devices though.
Luis
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-09 7:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-08 21:40 [regression] ath5k: Overrides regulatory domain set for cfg80211 Frans Pop
[not found] ` <200907082340.07787.elendil-EIBgga6/0yRmR6Xm/wNWPw@public.gmane.org>
2009-07-08 22:08 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-07-09 1:11 ` Frans Pop
[not found] ` <200907090311.40205.elendil-EIBgga6/0yRmR6Xm/wNWPw@public.gmane.org>
2009-07-09 2:07 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
[not found] ` <43e72e890907081907j279f48eep99e73cc2951dfdb-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2009-07-10 11:43 ` Frans Pop
2009-07-10 15:24 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-07-09 7:11 ` Holger Schurig
[not found] ` <43e72e890907081508n6fa5781an1dcbda078efc5379-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2009-07-09 7:05 ` Holger Schurig
2009-07-09 7:10 ` Luis R. Rodriguez [this message]
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