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Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] cfg80211: add helper reg_get_regdomain() function

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  janusz.dziedzi@xxxxxxxxx bounces BTW

 Luis

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 1:44 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez
<mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 12:17 AM, Johannes Berg
> <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2014-01-28 at 11:42 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>>
>>> > You mean we should introduce:
>>> > iw wlanX reg get?
>>>
>>> Sure, and iw dev reg get can also display what it does now but then
>>> also iterate over all wiphys and also display all wiphy's own regd if
>>> they have any.
>>
>> I'm not really sure I see much point in all this - what userspace
>> eventually cares about isn't the reg data but the channel list that can
>> be obtained with (the equivalent of) iw list.
>
> That's true if you don't consider important the data that applied the
> rules. This can be useful and if not exposed by userspace API I can at
> least see this useful for debugfs. As for userspace API -- the data
> reflects *calibrated* phy data, I see no reason why it shouldn't be
> exposed just as other attributes of the phy, but I can see this
> growing to other subjective areas, but I think we have things down
> with a general usable generic regulatory domain data structure.
>
> I can't say I care though :D just my $0.02 from a parking distance.
>
>   Luis
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