On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 09:45:29AM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Bob Copeland <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> I think that sums it up. > > > > I personally still like the idea of pushing the vendor-specific > > codes out to user space and having psuedo-country codes for > > those (e.g. "ATH_37"). Then the driver doesn't need all of the > > static rules loaded all the time and it would drop a lot of > > policy code from the driver. CRDA could be enhanced to load > > multiple databases, one for pure iso-3166 codes, one with > > Atheros codes, one with Intel, etc. <snip> > But with that said -- I think the region-code scheme is overly complex > and am not sure if aiding it is something we should focus energy and > resources on. It would seem better to me to focus on more cleaner > solutions and leave that old stuff as legacy solutions. That's the thing about "legacy" stuff -- it doesn't go away just from ignoring it! FWIW, I think Bob's suggestion makes a lot of sense. John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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
