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Why do this outside the device?

Why do this outside the device?

Posted Mar 3, 2006 20:49 UTC (Fri) by GreyWizard (subscriber, #1026)
Parent article: The ipw3945 project

Is there some hardware-related reason to enforce regulatory constraints in a fundamentally untrustworthy userspace environment than to do the same on the firmware of the device itself? Any inputs that would be hard to gather from there could surely be passed along by the driver or a free software userspace daemon.


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