On Thursday 28 September 2006 05:23, Johannes Berg wrote: > * why should there be configuration per device? The user can only > be operating in one country at a time... I think that information > should just be available inside cfg80211 in a global structure > for use by drivers whenever they need it (with some accessor > methods to ensure locked access). > Making regulatory info global is good. We're not really interested in a laptop with two wireless adapters sitting on a border.
> * I seem to have read between the lines that the EEPROM data is > pretty much useless. Is that generally true, or should the userspace > daemon be told what it contains (somehow)? > Even if the EEPROM data is useful, the driver should probably process it before giving it to userspace so we don't have to worry about updating eeprom parsing in userspace. > * Should the kernel perform some kind of validation on the regulatory > data the daemon gives it as well? > Probably just minimal sanity checks if needed. -Michael Wu
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