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Subject: Re: [wireless-regdb] [RFC] [PATCH] crda: enforce ETSI CAC timer of
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On Mon, 2015-04-13 at 14:54 -0500, Seth Forshee wrote:

> > > Yeah with AUTO-BW the bands could be broken up in db.txt, and we could
> > > even put in the CAC times. But we still can't get the CAC times into the
> > > current regulatory.bin format, so it doesn't really accomplish anything.
> > 
> > But then there's also little point in putting any code for it into the
> > crda binary, no?
> 
> Just to be clear, I'm not arguing for or against the patch at all. I'm
> only trying to explain why Jean-Pierre is proposing to change CRDA
> rather than db.txt. Maybe I should just let him speak for himself ...
> 
> As I understand it Jean-Pierre is looking for a stop-gap to get CAC
> times into the kernel until such time as we have a file format which
> allows getting them from regulatory.bin. Chaning CRDA can accomplish
> this, whereas modifying db.txt cannot.

Ah, yes, I got confused here. The regdb binary format doesn't support
it, but the kernel does.

johannes


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