On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 09:07 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > What I really wanted to know though is this: If the core code is > > enabled, what effect does receiving a "blessed" hint have on devices > > that don't set the flag? If there's no effect vs. an "unblessed" hint, > > then I think we don't need another option? > > Ah, OK so yes, as it is right now if the core accepts the hint but > devices do not listen to it we do have an effect right now which I > alluded to in my cover letter: country IE hints won't be listened to > after a base station hint gets accepted. Whether or not we want to > process country IE hints *after* a cell base station hint gets > accepted is debatable -- I decided that its easier to implement to > ignore country IE hints after a cell base station hint and I also > decided cell base station hints are likely something you'd prefer to > review over country IE hints. We can certainly change this and I'm > open to it. > > So yes, as it is right now if you enable onus but your device does not > support he feature you may detect a regression: country IE hints would > not be processed if you did receive a base station hint that the core > processed. It seems this might be a problem, in the case that I mentioned before: you do take all the necessary steps to enable this, but then somebody plugs in a USB device (say this is a tablet-like device?) It seems it would be better to make the base station/country IE hint also depend on the feature flag? johannes -- 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
