Re: [RFC] Proposed structure for Regulatory/Geographical Wireless database

2006-05-06 Thread Larry Finger
Jouni Malinen wrote: On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 03:14:35PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: The driver may not know the country code, so there should be mechanism for user space to override this. Do you think an environment variable would suffice, or do you propose another scheme? * Checksum routines

Re: [RFC] Proposed structure for Regulatory/Geographical Wireless database

2006-05-06 Thread Larry Finger
Michael Buesch wrote: On Friday 05 May 2006 22:14, you wrote: # Groups follow countries # Group 0 - Unspecified Country # # Band Ch. Range Ch. Spacing Power Flags ^ Aren't there countries around, where there are gaps in the allowed channel numbers? (Especi

Re: [RFC] Proposed structure for Regulatory/Geographical Wireless database

2006-05-06 Thread Michael Buesch
On Friday 05 May 2006 22:14, you wrote: > # Groups follow countries > # > Group 0 - Unspecified Country > # > # Band Ch. Range Ch. Spacing Power Flags ^ Aren't there countries around, where there are gaps in the allowed channel numbers? (Especially for 802.11a

Re: [RFC] Proposed structure for Regulatory/Geographical Wireless database

2006-05-05 Thread Uli Kunitz
Larry Finger wrote: > Uli Kunitz wrote: > > Larry Finger wrote: > > > > > * A new routine (ieee80211_init_geo ?) will be written to be called by the > > > driver to load the geo structure into the kernel. Information passed to > > > the > > > daemon will be the country code in ASCII and whether t

Re: [RFC] Proposed structure for Regulatory/Geographical Wireless database

2006-05-05 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 03:14:35PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > * A new routine (ieee80211_init_geo ?) will be written to be called by the > driver to load the geo structure into the kernel. Information passed to the > daemon will be the country code in ASCII and whether the interface is to be

Re: [RFC] Proposed structure for Regulatory/Geographical Wireless database

2006-05-05 Thread Larry Finger
Dan Williams wrote: On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 15:14 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: Thanks to all that responded to my earlier RFC. A number of changes in my thinking are based on those comments, which came from Christoph Hellwig, Rick Jones, Ulrich Kunitz, Faidon Liambotis, Jouni Malinen, and Harald W

Re: [RFC] Proposed structure for Regulatory/Geographical Wireless database

2006-05-05 Thread Larry Finger
Uli Kunitz wrote: Larry Finger wrote: * A new routine (ieee80211_init_geo ?) will be written to be called by the driver to load the geo structure into the kernel. Information passed to the daemon will be the country code in ASCII and whether the interface is to be used indoors or outdoors. Wo

Re: [RFC] Proposed structure for Regulatory/Geographical Wireless database

2006-05-05 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 15:14 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > Thanks to all that responded to my earlier RFC. A number of changes in my > thinking are based on > those comments, which came from Christoph Hellwig, Rick Jones, Ulrich Kunitz, > Faidon Liambotis, > Jouni Malinen, and Harald Welte. The

Re: [RFC] Proposed structure for Regulatory/Geographical Wireless database

2006-05-05 Thread Uli Kunitz
Larry Finger wrote: > * A new routine (ieee80211_init_geo ?) will be written to be called by the > driver to load the geo structure into the kernel. Information passed to the > daemon will be the country code in ASCII and whether the interface is to be > used indoors or outdoors. Would it be poss

[RFC] Proposed structure for Regulatory/Geographical Wireless database

2006-05-05 Thread Larry Finger
Thanks to all that responded to my earlier RFC. A number of changes in my thinking are based on those comments, which came from Christoph Hellwig, Rick Jones, Ulrich Kunitz, Faidon Liambotis, Jouni Malinen, and Harald Welte. The important points of my proposal are as follows: * The database w