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authorLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>2009-03-20 23:53:06 -0400
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2009-03-27 20:13:07 -0400
commit6ee7d33056f6e6fc7437d980dcc741816deedd0f (patch)
tree80ae8f6277f508f48bea63898cebb7fdeaa0cfec /Documentation
parentcc0b6fe88e99096868bdbacbf486c97299533b5a (diff)
cfg80211: make regdom module parameter available oustide of OLD_REG
It seems a few users are using this module parameter although its not recommended. People are finding it useful despite there being utilities for setting this in userspace. I'm not aware of any distribution using this though. Until userspace and distributions catch up with a default userspace automatic replacement (GeoClue integration would be nirvana) we copy the ieee80211_regdom module parameter from OLD_REG to the new reg code to help these users migrate. Users who are using the non-valid ISO / IEC 3166 alpha "EU" in their ieee80211_regdom module parameter and migrate to non-OLD_REG enabled system will world roam. This also schedules removal of this same ieee80211_regdom module parameter circa March 2010. Hope is by then nirvana is reached and users will abandoned the module parameter completely. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
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@@ -6,7 +6,31 @@ be removed from this file.
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-What: old static regulatory information and ieee80211_regdom module parameter
+What: The ieee80211_regdom module parameter
+When: March 2010
+
+Why: This was inherited by the CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY code,
+ and currently serves as an option for users to define an
+ ISO / IEC 3166 alpha2 code for the country they are currently
+ present in. Although there are userspace API replacements for this
+ through nl80211 distributions haven't yet caught up with implementing
+ decent alternatives through standard GUIs. Although available as an
+ option through iw or wpa_supplicant its just a matter of time before
+ distributions pick up good GUI options for this. The ideal solution
+ would actually consist of intelligent designs which would do this for
+ the user automatically even when travelling through different countries.
+ Until then we leave this module parameter as a compromise.
+
+ When userspace improves with reasonable widely-available alternatives for
+ this we will no longer need this module parameter. This entry hopes that
+ by the super-futuristically looking date of "March 2010" we will have
+ such replacements widely available.
+
+Who: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: old static regulatory information
When: 2.6.29
Why: The old regulatory infrastructure has been replaced with a new one
which does not require statically defined regulatory domains. We do
@@ -17,9 +41,7 @@ Why: The old regulatory infrastructure has been replaced with a new one
* JP
* EU
and used by default the US when CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY was
- set. We also kept around the ieee80211_regdom module parameter in case
- some applications were relying on it. Changing regulatory domains
- can now be done instead by using nl80211, as is done with iw.
+ set.
Who: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
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