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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:05:40 -0700
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
To: "Marcel Holtmann" <holtmann@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: Getting country alpha2 on network manager and using it for crda
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On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Marcel Holtmann
<holtmann@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> Hi Luis,
>
>> > I hesitate to try and specify an LSB-standard file anywhere for this,
>> > not sure we need that.  NM might want to store this value
>> > per-connection, or might want to store the value system-wide, or
>> > whatever.  I don't really see the value in standardizing the location of
>> > alpha2 config.
>>
>> The only reason why I was thinking of having a standard place for it
>> is that there may be more than one device which can help update the
>> country based on data it has (GPS, user, etc) and the fact that if we
>> are going to set this somewhere perhaps some other things can make use
>> of this as well?
>
> don't go that way. It will cause to many problems. We can add an option
> to the wpa_supplicant file if you really wanna store it (for the command
> line guys).

Stuffing it into wpa_supplicant.conf is fine. You're the one who
suggested a location manager :)

> Leave the rest to NetworkManager.

Alright.

  Luis