Return-path: Received: from mail-lb0-f177.google.com ([209.85.217.177]:41636 "EHLO mail-lb0-f177.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752018AbbBTCJ1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2015 21:09:27 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <36119.1424394185@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> References: <1422889166-29386-1-git-send-email-ilan.peer@intel.com> <20150206235802.GA19988@wotan.suse.de> <20150210200027.GG19988@wotan.suse.de> <20150220005344.GF20824@wotan.suse.de> <36119.1424394185@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 18:09:04 -0800 Message-ID: (sfid-20150220_030946_602689_A7426ECC) Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] cfg80211: Add API to change the indoor regulatory setting To: Valdis Kletnieks Cc: "Peer, Ilan" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , ArikX Nemtsov , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 5:03 PM, wrote: > On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 01:53:44 +0100, "Luis R. Rodriguez" said: >> Wider community: >> >> anyone aware of any *need* in the kernel to know whether one is indoor or >> not on a device running Linux other than wifi? Clearly it should be something >> that might be of interest to at least other RF devices, so that is at least >> one possibilty to consider already, but what else? > > I can think of a lot of reasons for the kernel to make indoor/outdoor > status available to userspace, but am coming up empty why the kernel itself > should care.... Some devices enable regulatory control through the kernel, in such cases the wireless-regdb is used and there is an INDOOR flag that enables / disables specific functionality. Luis