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From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@frijolero.org>
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 09:49:22 -0700
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Subject: Re: Adding custom channels to ath5k for researching purposes
To: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Cc: Vadim <Vadims.Kurmis@gmail.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 07:50:06AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> I'm thinking it may make sense to add CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXPERT where we
>> can stuff some of this stuff under. It may be useful for other
>> regulatory testing / certification stuff.
>
> No objection here, so long as this kind of config opt wouldn't become
> a dumping ground (cf. CONFIG_EMBEDDED).  "EXPERT" could mean different
> things to different people.

Well it should depend on CONFIG_EXPERT but yeah -- I was surprised to
learn recently even Ubuntu is shipping with CONFIG_EXPERT, so WTF.
Localizing the expert config to wireless might make more sense.

> I still like the idea of exporting more stuff to userspace and letting
> CRDA handle the card-based restrictions, but ISTR you had reasons that
> didn't work for everything.

What do you mean?

  Luis