On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 07:54:31PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > I am leaning toward putting the geographical information into a > userland daemon.
I like that idea very much. This is all control metadate that doesn't really need to be in the kernel. > That way we won't have to patch the kernel every time a country > modifies its regulations. that's another advantage. > In addition, the kernel will be smaller. The downside is that the > daemon will have to be updated and supplied in some convenient form, > perhaps as part of a wireless tools package. Ideally the daemon would get the table of country restrictions from a policy file (some human-readable ascii?). That file can then be downloaded by a cronjob to keep it updated, if desired. A bit like the PCI/USB device id databases... -- - Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://gnumonks.org/ ============================================================================ "Privacy in residential applications is a desirable marketing option." (ETSI EN 300 175-7 Ch. A6)
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