On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:34:58PM +0100, Gábor Stefanik wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez > <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > Keeping the module parameter as a way to set the initial regdomain is > helpful for users who upgrade the kernel of an older distro. This makes sense, but what distributions are using this module parameter? As far as I can tell its only users using it. And if there are distributions using it -- can we not expect them to stop using it by they disable OLD_REG? > Adding a > line to /etc/modprobe.d/options would be a much easier way of setting > the right regdomain right during bootup than having to edit the init > scripts Using init scripts is just one way of doing this, its not the only way. Userspace can use user-configuration settings through wpa_supplicant, hostapd, GPS devices can also provide hints, say through the usage of GeoClue. That's really a lot neater than a module parameter or an init script. > and it is also something that CRDA's "make install" could do > automagically (like "make install regdom=HU"). I'd rather not make that a practice provided we want to phase out OLD_REG and we want userspace to use nl80211 for 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
