Re: [wireless-regdb] [RFC] [PATCH] crda: enforce ETSI CAC timer of 600s on the weather band

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Cc: Jean-Pierre Tosoni <jp.tosoni@acksys.fr>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>,
	wireless-regdb@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [wireless-regdb] [RFC] [PATCH] crda: enforce ETSI CAC timer of 600s on the weather band
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 09:16:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1428995766.3019.0.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150413195426.GB3025@ubuntu-xps13>

On Mon, 2015-04-13 at 14:54 -0500, Seth Forshee wrote:

> > > Yeah with AUTO-BW the bands could be broken up in db.txt, and we could
> > > even put in the CAC times. But we still can't get the CAC times into the
> > > current regulatory.bin format, so it doesn't really accomplish anything.
> > 
> > But then there's also little point in putting any code for it into the
> > crda binary, no?
> 
> Just to be clear, I'm not arguing for or against the patch at all. I'm
> only trying to explain why Jean-Pierre is proposing to change CRDA
> rather than db.txt. Maybe I should just let him speak for himself ...
> 
> As I understand it Jean-Pierre is looking for a stop-gap to get CAC
> times into the kernel until such time as we have a file format which
> allows getting them from regulatory.bin. Chaning CRDA can accomplish
> this, whereas modifying db.txt cannot.

Ah, yes, I got confused here. The regdb binary format doesn't support
it, but the kernel does.

johannes

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