[wireless-regdb] CAC time syntax in regdb.txt

Janusz Dziedzic janusz.dziedzic at tieto.com
Thu Apr 2 22:26:40 PDT 2015


On 30 March 2015 at 23:10, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof at suse.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:03:34AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
>> On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 21:42 +0100, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>>
>> > This would require generating two binary files and supporting that.  This was
>> > never done. We could also try to somehow mesh both versions together with one
>> > larger file that has both and try to remain compatible. That's the ideal
>> > solution IMHO.
>>
>> Given the file format, I don't think this will be possible.
>>
>> > Instead of sticking to CRDA updates to rely on this for support what we really
>> > need to do is mesh in CRDA support upstream into the kernel since the kernel
>> > now supports the cryptographic needs that CRDA had. I was planning on doing
>> > this during the upcoming Hackweek at SUSE but if anyone else wants to try that
>> > before please feel free.
>>
>> And given that we want this direction anyway, I'm not sure that the
>> multi-file-format CRDA solution will really be economical.
>>
>> For the kernel, we should probably define an extensible file format
>> anyway, and then just do it once.
>
> Ack. I can try to address both then during Hackweek unless someone wants
> to jump on it sooner.
>

Hello Jean-Pierre,

Before this will be ready, you can always chek crda-tiny
implementation, where signed db.txt file is used (skiped bin file) -
and CAC time works fine.
So, you can check this patch: [RFC 2/2] crda: add crda_tiny implementation .

BR
Janusz



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