Re: [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] User-space requirements for accelerator drivers

Johannes Berg
2021-09-14T13:39:55Z

On Sun, 2021-09-12 at 00:52 +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
>
> For a wireless driver the situation is possibly different, I suppose
> that if the closed-source userspace blob is there only for regulatory
> reasons, then there would be very little point in having a closed-source
> implementation with a parallel one.
>
For the record, I know of no such thing, certainly not with an upstream
driver.

Regulatory enforcement is either done through regulatory.db{,.p7s}
loaded into the kernel (the accepted keys are determined at build time),
or, in many newer devices, by firmware.

johannes