On the Linux wireless subsystem we now have a use for having the ISO/IEC 3166 alpha2 [1] of a user's system be stored somewhere and allow the user to update this (through some admin capability) for purposes of helping with regulatory considerations. Our new regulatory infrastructure [2] can now make use of the alpha2 to set in place a safety net of regulatory restrictions on the wireless drivers present. A regulatory database is used then in userspace to pass to the kernel a regulatory domain it builds based on the alpha2. We were recently discussing who would set this [3] and it seems there are a range of devices which could help contribute to this. Ultimately we will use this to update the regulatory domain. Should this file be updated a trigger should be made to change the regulatory domain as well, for example. Provided that there may be other uses other than wireless to define what country the user currently is in I was wondering if there is a place for this already and if not consider its addition to LSB. I'm not seeing it defined as of LSB 3.2. From what I read from LSB 3.2 Core - VI Section 16.2 /etc: Host-specific system configuration [4] we should be looking to Linux Assigned Names And Numbers Authority (LANANA) LSB Provider Name Registry [5] for defining a home for this? Is this correct? Perhaps something as simple as /etc/country and in it we define the ISO3166 alpha2. Distributions can then set this to the country upon installation time and then when certain devices (either the user, GPS, etc) determine the user's location has changed the file gets updated and notification gets sent (maybe through udev?) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2 [2] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Regulatory [3] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/21333 [4] http://refspecs.linux-foundation.org/LSB_3.2.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/etc.html [5] http://www.lanana.org/lsbreg/providers/index.html Note: I think lsb-discuss requires subscription to post, linux-wireless doesn't Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
