Return-path: Received: from mail.atheros.com ([12.36.123.2]:39324 "EHLO mail.atheros.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755967AbYILVP2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:15:28 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:15:19 -0700 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: Larry Finger CC: Luis Rodriguez , Johannes Berg , John Linville , wireless Subject: Re: The new regulatory code kills my wireless Message-ID: <20080912211518.GD7722@tesla> (sfid-20080912_231532_528680_A1707D21) References: <48CAA8D6.1030605@lwfinger.net> <20080912174036.GC6134@tesla> <48CAB90C.5090302@lwfinger.net> <20080912191919.GA7722@tesla> <1221250959.5576.10.camel@johannes.berg> <20080912203438.GB7722@tesla> <48CAD837.9060909@lwfinger.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" In-Reply-To: <48CAD837.9060909@lwfinger.net> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 01:59:35PM -0700, Larry Finger wrote: > Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > > Sorry, I forgot to factor in lazy people, that's important. I hope > > there are no lazy distributions. > > There may or may not be any of them, but there will be lots of people > that are running kernels later than the standard for their distro - me > as one example. Not all of them will have the skills or inclination to > build CRDA. For them, I expect that the distro kernels will have the > old stuff enabled as long as that option lives. > > Note: The prerequisites for building CRDA should include netlink. That > was the last stumbling block for me. Yeah good point. Luis