On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 09:54 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > Well, at least have one that all 802.11 _drivers_ can use at the very > least, I know of 5 or 6 places in the kernel right now that have this > sort of info. Even just inlines in ieee80211.h or something for > chan->freq, freq->chan, freq->band, chan->band, etc. Max allowed power > levels and stuff as well. Right, that's something we need to clean up as well, but I don't want to touch it before we have a concensus and more work on regulatory stuff. > WRT to userspace, if there's an easy way to put this into headers that > get exported to userspace headers, I think that would be useful. > Otherwise everybody has to keep rewriting these, both mac80211, fullmac > drivers, userspace programs like NetworkManager and wpa_supplicant, etc. Right, except that when we add .11n or even .11y that'll require all userspace tools to be rewritten, so wouldn't it be easier to export the info via nl80211 right away? johannes
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