On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 01:31:52PM -0800, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 15:29 -0600, Larry Finger wrote: > > On at least one forum, I have seen the recommendation that a user set their > > regulatory domain by creating the file /etc/modprobe.d/cfg80211 with the > > contents "ieee80211_regdom=US". > > > > That works as long as CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY is set in their .config, > > but will fail if it is not. > > > > Should the module_param statement be moved outside the ifdef > > CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD...? Setting the module parameter that way might not make any > > sense, but it surely shouldn't kill wireless. > > I actually see no reason to not just /honour/ it by calling crda with > its parameter if CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY isn't set. The idea was that things we want to get rid of will go in OLD_REG. Static regdoms for US, JP and EU fall into that and so does the module parameter. I believe it is silly to keep the module parameter around as we already have userspace APIs to let users set this. 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
