linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] iw: add GeoClue support

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Date:	Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:05:07 +0100
From:	Bastien Nocera <hadess@...ess.net>
To:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@...eros.com>
Cc:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>, kevin@...eros.com,
	David.Quan@...eros.com, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, geoclue@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] iw: add GeoClue support

On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 08:44 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> 
> > What use is a command line tool that has to talk to a whole bunch of
> > daemons etc.?
> 
> The current implementation doesn't talk to deamons. The hostip
> provider within GeoClue and it will just trigger a URL get. If
> desktops start implementing a master server though then the query
> would simply be a cached response. 

Note that this error carries on in the mail. There is a master provider
for Geoclue that can make use of whatever providers are available, but
it's not in too good a shape.

I'd rather somebody started fixing the Geoclue master provider rather
than relying on a particular service, especially when the D-Bus API for
the providers themselves is something we don't want to support in the
longer term.

Cheers

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