On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 10:38 AM, John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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! True. > FWIW, I think Bob's suggestion makes a lot of sense. Patches welcomed then :) 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
