Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > 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. I guess we leave it the way it is. At least the only people that will get caught are those that upgrade their distro. A clean install should redo the /etc/... tree and do away with such modifications. Larry -- 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
