wireless-regdb key change broke crda tests after 37dcea0e6e5

[Kalle Valo]

Johannes Berg <johannes at sipsolutions.net> writes:

> On Tue, 2024-02-06 at 22:27 +0000, Sergei Trofimovich wrote:
>> 
>> 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!
>
> Note that hostapd never directly depended on crda, it just needs/wants
> it to have the correct regulatory information in the kernel (crda puts
> it there) after switching the country (hostapd can do that if possible)
> and then hostapd retrieves the information.
>
> But in any case, the whole step with crda is no longer needed if you
> have the regulatory file (and possibly signature) in place, the firmware
> will load them as firmware files.

I assume you mean: the kernel will load them as firmware files.

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