Ubuntu regulatory database

Ubuntu regulatory database

[Nuno Gonçalves]

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?

Thanks,
Nuno

Re: Ubuntu regulatory database

[Seth Forshee]

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.

Seth

Re: Ubuntu regulatory database

[Kalle Valo]

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?

-- 
Kalle Valo

Re: Ubuntu regulatory database

[Luca Coelho]

On Mon, 2015-04-27 at 08:08 +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?

Yeah, we had a bug reported from the community that turned out to be
about this:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95901


--
Luca.

Re: Ubuntu regulatory database

[Kalle Valo]

Luca Coelho <luca@coelho.fi> writes:

>> > 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?
>
> Yeah, we had a bug reported from the community that turned out to be
> about this:
>
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95901

Hehe, this was exactly what I was worried about :)

-- 
Kalle Valo

Re: Ubuntu regulatory database

[Seth Forshee]

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.

Re: Ubuntu regulatory database

[Kalle Valo]

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.

-- 
Kalle Valo