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

Jean-Pierre Tosoni jp.tosoni at acksys.fr
Tue Apr 7 00:35:36 PDT 2015


Thanks Janusz, I will have a look at that.

-----Message d'origine-----
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la part de Janusz Dziedzic
Envoyé : vendredi 3 avril 2015 07:27
À : Luis R. Rodriguez
Cc : Jean-Pierre TOSONI; Seth Forshee; Johannes Berg;
wireless-regdb at lists.infradead.org; Luis R. Rodriguez
Objet : Re: [wireless-regdb] CAC time syntax in regdb.txt

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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