Re: Ubuntu regulatory database

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>]

Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> writes:

> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 08:08:01AM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> writes:
>> 
>> > On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 06:26:34PM +0100, Nuno Gonçalves wrote:
>> >> I was surprised that the wireless regdb provided with Ubuntu 15.04 is
>> >> almost 2 years old.
>> >> 
>> >> Are you aware of the reason Ubuntu is not providing a updated regdb by default?
>> >
>> > This doesn't really seem on topic for the mailing list as it's a distro
>> > issue.
>> >
>> > But yes, it recently came to my attention that our distro package hadn't
>> > been updated in a while (I don't maintain the distro package and
>> > obviously wasn't paying close enough attention). It will be updated
>> > soon.
>> 
>> Oh, so does this mean that the old regdb doesn't support 80 MHz
>> channels? Is there any way to make it easier to update the regdb in
>> older Ubuntu versions?
>
> It's likely we'll start pulling in updates on a continuing basis for as
> long as a release is supported. It's been on the list of things to get
> worked out right after 15.04 releases, i.e. this week.

Nice, that would be perfect.

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Kalle Valo