From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: "Gábor Stefanik" <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>,
Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
Subject: Re: Questions about regulatory domain & passive scanning
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:35:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090911193542.GK2622@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <69e28c910909111226s48ac1db9ya8fe2cce54861c1e@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:26:11PM +0200, Gábor Stefanik wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
> <lrodriguez@atheros.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Holger Schurig
> > <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de> wrote:
> >> Hi !
> >>
> >> I'm playing with regulatory domain using wireless-testing, iw,
> >> crda and ath5 on Debian. Here are some observations:
> >>
> >> 1) Debian sucks here
> >
> > We've tried a few times to poke them and after some thread exchanges
> > and some changes to wirless-regdb and crda due to concerns over the
> > signing stuff due to the DFSG in account for these discussions it
> > seems some stuff was packaged but not sure where it went. Kel, are you
> > aware of the status in this regard on Debian?
>
> Well, if the problem is signing, then they are always free to package
> a patched crda that accepts unsigned or self-signed databases; AFAIK
> GPL doesn't prohibit that (though it kinda defeats the purpose of
> crda).
I disagree about that defeating the purpose -- the purpose is to put
the decision making into userland. The signing is a configuration
issue, allowing distributions to have "trusted" configuration sources
by default.
--
John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you
linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-11 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-11 12:27 Questions about regulatory domain & passive scanning Holger Schurig
2009-09-11 18:36 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-09-11 19:26 ` Gábor Stefanik
2009-09-11 19:35 ` John W. Linville [this message]
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