linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] cfg80211: Add API to change the indoor regulatory setting

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Message-ID: <36119.1424394185@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Thu, 19 Feb 2015 20:03:05 -0500
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>
Cc:	"Peer, Ilan" <ilan.peer@...el.com>,
	"linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	ArikX Nemtsov <arik@...ery.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] cfg80211: Add API to change the indoor regulatory setting

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....

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