Subject: Re: Getting country alpha2 on network manager and using it for crda
From: Marcel Holtmann <holtmann@linux.intel.com>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
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	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:26:50 +0200
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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 :)

I know and at some point we might start working it, but that is future
stuff and far from reality right now.

Regards

Marcel