From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:47725 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752216AbZLNDdj (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:33:39 -0500 Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:29:20 -0500 From: "John W. Linville" To: Marcel Holtmann Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] wireless: support internal statically compiled regulatory database Message-ID: <20091214032920.GB4743@tuxdriver.com> References: <1260755116-3829-1-git-send-email-linville@tuxdriver.com> <1260755719.4041.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In-Reply-To: <1260755719.4041.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 02:55:19AM +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi John, > > > +config CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB > > + bool "use statically compiled regulatory rules database" > > + default n > > + depends on CFG80211 > > + ---help--- > > + This option generates an internal data structure representing > > + the wireless regulatory rules described in net/wireless/db.txt > > + and includes code to query that database. This is an alternative > > + to using CRDA for defining regulatory rules for the kernel. > > + > > + For details see: > > + > > + http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Regulatory > > + > > + Most distributions have a CRDA package. So if unsure, say N. > > since it is pretty clear that people should be defaulting to CRDA, why > not make it depend on CONFIG_EMBEDDED. Other than expanding the amount of config options available, what are the ramifications of selecting CONFIG_EMBEDDED? Is it just a way of hiding options that "normal" people don't need to see? Or does it have some significant change on the built kernel by itself? John -- John W. Linville                Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com                  might be all we have.  Be ready.