On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 05:53:03PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > >> I might as well chime in to explain the long story. If we figure out a >> way to ensure we can always get the antenna gain uniformly across >> different systems and expose this to the OS I suspect we can convince >> some OEMs this would be a better solution than simply restricting >> devices. I looked a the newer generation of dmidecode (its not called >> DMI, its something else now) thingy but saw no one yet had added >> 802.11 specifically, perhaps it may be good to consider it in the >> future for this. that's as far as I got from trying to kill this >> concern. > > Exposing it as either an smbios table or in ACPI somewhere would be the > two most typical methods for doing this. It's easy to spec an ACPI table > for it if you think there'd be any vendor interest. Better than what we have today, no alternative proposal. 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
