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

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Thu Feb 19 2015 - 20:03:26 EST


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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