Re: [RFC ] [1 of 4] IEEE802.11 Regulatory/Geographical Support for drivers - statement of project

2006-06-11 Thread Ulrich Kunitz
Larry, I've not read your patches your detail, so I comment only on your description. 1. A new routine, ieee80211_init_geo has been written that is called by a driver wishing to use this functionality. The arguments are an ieee80211_device, a two-character ISO3661 country code, and a flag

Re: [RFC ] [1 of 4] IEEE802.11 Regulatory/Geographical Support for drivers - statement of project

2006-06-11 Thread Larry Finger
Uli, Ulrich Kunitz wrote: Larry, I've not read your patches your detail, so I comment only on your description. The problem is the driver doesn't have good ideas, whether the device is outdoor and in which country it operates. Devices have some information available, but I have definitely a

[RFC ] [1 of 4] IEEE802.11 Regulatory/Geographical Support for drivers - statement of project

2006-06-03 Thread Larry Finger
As announced earlier in this list, I am working on providing kernel support for providing regulatory information to be used to set usable channels, max power, and other information needed by IEEE802.11 drivers. The database will be maintained as a text file processed by a user-space daemon. I

Re: [RFC ] [1 of 4] IEEE802.11 Regulatory/Geographical Support for drivers - statement of project

2006-06-03 Thread Michael Buesch
On Sunday 04 June 2006 00:45, Larry Finger wrote: b) It then creates a new directory, '/proc/net/ieee80211_geo', and populates it with 2 files for communication with the daemon. The first, which is read by the daemon, contains the country and outdoor codes, and the second is for the