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

Johannes Berg johannes at sipsolutions.net
Mon Mar 30 01:03:34 PDT 2015


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.

johannes




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