Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:38833 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752603Ab1BARpQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Feb 2011 12:45:16 -0500 Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 12:32:47 -0500 From: "John W. Linville" To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: linux-wireless Subject: Re: Review of moving all DFS parameters to userspace Message-ID: <20110201173247.GE2560@tuxdriver.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 08:38:05AM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > I though we had reviewed the possibility of moving DFS parameters to > userspace but it seems that's not the case. We now at least know we > can keep the DFS regions: US, JP, ETSI, the next step is to determine > if the DFS parameters for these regions will come from userspace or > kernelspace. I'm inclined to support starting off with moving this to > kernelspace just to let us move forward with this support, and once in > kernel, review the possibility to move this out to userspace. > > Thoughts? Seems like a reasonable approach for the short term...better than locking-in userland ABI... John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.