I thought the reason for using GeoClue is to cater for frequent travellers who can cross timezone (and not neccesarily reset their laptop's computer/clock for it)? So it is orthogonal to one-off static setup where the computer mostly stay in the same country/location. Is there an iw/cfg80211 interface/field for regulatory info? AFAIK there isn't in wext, but that's on its way out and probably not important... On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 2:10 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez<mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The GSoC project to integrate GeoClue to GNOME and eventually send > regulatory hint information to the kernel [1] will not be completed > through GSoC. Since I am not sure if the student will be interested in > following up on this project idea outside the scope of GSoC I'm > looking for advice to better get an idea of what it is exactly we > should be looking forward to change to get information to the kernel > to enhance regulatory support using GeoClue. At the very least I'd > like to come to some conclusion as to where it is best to put software > to send information to the kernel to help distributions. > > The current best alternative I've seen is to read the current timezone > information and extract the country from that. That is how John > implemented it for Fedora. This may be enough but GeoClue should > provide better accuracy. All we need in the kernel is to determine the > country you are on. The user can obviously set this themselves during > a distribution install, but it may make sense to just use GeoClue for > this. Under the assumption that using GeoClue is the way to go how > should we do this? > > For the GSoC project I was initially suggesting for Network Manager to > get GeoClue integration and then have Network Manager send the > regulatory hint once a country was determined through either user > input or through GeoClue magic. After some discussions with Jouni > about this he convinced me this may not be the best place for this. So > if not Network Manager, where? Do we want a GNOME location aware panel > under System->Administration? Is it as simple as that? If not are > there any other suggestions? > > If you fwd this to another list for discussion please do CC me. > > [1] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/GSoC/2009/GeoClue_regulatory > > 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 > -- 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
