wireless-regdb key change broke crda tests after 37dcea0e6e5
Sergei Trofimovich
slyich at gmail.com
Tue Feb 6 14:27:57 PST 2024
On Tue, 06 Feb 2024 12:47:35 +0100
Johannes Berg <johannes at sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > "wireless-regdb: Update keys and maintainer information".
> >
> > Both `git` `master` version of `crda` and `wireless-regdb` still fail
> > `crda`'s `make verify`.
> >
> > Should `crda` key the key update as well?
>
> Maybe?
>
> But perhaps the real question is if you should still be shipping crda?
> It was last needed for kernel 4.15, and even the newest stable kernel
> based on or before it (4.14) is now EOL ...
>
> After that, we had the regdb loaded like a firmware file including the
> signatures, so the whole crda isn't needed any more.
Great point! `nixpkgs` uses `crda` only as a `hostapd` depend and
looking at modern `hostapd` it does not use it at all. I'll spend some
time removing it downstream. Thank you!
--
Sergei
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