From: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, wireless-regdb@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: [PATCH 6/6] wireless-regdb: Document regulatory.db in the manual page
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 00:03:03 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171222060303.14478-7-seth.forshee@canonical.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171222060303.14478-1-seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Add information about regulatory.db to the regulatory.bin man
page, and alias the regulatory.db man page to refer to the page
for regulatory.bin.
Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
---
Makefile | 2 +-
regulatory.bin.5 | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------
regulatory.db.5 | 1 +
3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 regulatory.db.5
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 1e8e84c64149..2f1ed93e0e15 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -126,4 +126,4 @@ install: regulatory.bin.5.gz regulatory.db.5.gz
install -m 644 -t $(DESTDIR)/$(CRDA_PATH)/ regulatory.bin
install -m 644 -t $(DESTDIR)/$(FIRMWARE_PATH) regulatory.db regulatory.db.p7s
install -m 755 -d $(DESTDIR)/$(MANDIR)/man5/
- install -m 644 -t $(DESTDIR)/$(MANDIR)/man5/ regulatory.bin.5.gz
+ install -m 644 -t $(DESTDIR)/$(MANDIR)/man5/ regulatory.bin.5.gz regulatory.db.5.gz
diff --git a/regulatory.bin.5 b/regulatory.bin.5
index 430c65c9ce6d..b1862cd1756d 100644
--- a/regulatory.bin.5
+++ b/regulatory.bin.5
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-.TH regulatory.bin 5 "23 January 2009" "regulatory.bin" "Linux"
+.TH regulatory.bin 5 "21 December 2017" "regulatory.bin" "Linux"
.SH NAME
-regulatory.bin \- The Linux wireless regulatory database
+regulatory.bin, regulatory.db \- The Linux wireless regulatory database
.ad l
.in +8
@@ -9,24 +9,36 @@ regulatory.bin \- The Linux wireless regulatory database
.SS
.SH Description
.B regulatory.bin
-is the file used by the Linux wireless subsystem to keep its regulatory
-database information. It is read by
+and
+.B regulatory.db
+are the files used by the Linux wireless subsystem to keep its regulatory
+database information.
+.PP
+.B regulatory.bin
+is read by
.B crda
upon the Linux kernel's request for regulatory information for a specific
-ISO / IEC 3166 alpha2 country code. The regulatory database is kept in
-a small binary format for size and code efficiency. The
+ISO / IEC 3166 alpha2 country code.
+.PP
+.B regulatory.db
+is a newer, extensible database format which (since Linux 4.15) is read
+by the kernel directly as a firmware file.
+
+The regulatory database is kept in a small binary format for size and code
+efficiency. The
.B regulatory.bin
file can be parsed and read in human format by using the
.B regdbdump
-command. The
-.B regulatory.bin
-file should be updated upon regulatory changes or corrections.
+command. The regulatory database files should be updated upon regulatory
+changes or corrections.
.SH Upkeeping
The regulatory database is maintained by the community as such
you are encouraged to send any corrections or updates to the
-linux-wireless mailing list:
+linux-wireless and wireless-regdb mailing lists:
.B linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
+and
+.B wireless-regdb@lists.infradead.org
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR regdbdump (8)
diff --git a/regulatory.db.5 b/regulatory.db.5
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6c8aae374621
--- /dev/null
+++ b/regulatory.db.5
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+.so man5/regulatory.bin.5.gz
--
2.14.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-22 6:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-22 6:02 [PATCH 0/6] wireless-regdb: Support for new binary database format Seth Forshee
2017-12-22 6:02 ` [PATCH 1/6] regdb: write firmware file format (version code 20) Seth Forshee
2017-12-22 6:02 ` [PATCH 2/6] wireless-regdb: Restore generation of old format database files Seth Forshee
2017-12-22 6:03 ` [PATCH 3/6] wireless-regdb: Add sforshee's x509 certificate Seth Forshee
2017-12-22 6:03 ` [PATCH 4/6] wireless-regdb: Better support for generating public certificates Seth Forshee
2017-12-22 6:03 ` [PATCH 5/6] wireless-regdb: Install regulatory.db and regulatory.db.p7s to /lib/firmware Seth Forshee
2017-12-22 6:03 ` Seth Forshee [this message]
2017-12-22 8:45 ` [PATCH 0/6] wireless-regdb: Support for new binary database format Johannes Berg
2017-12-24 3:24 ` Seth Forshee
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