Re: [wireless-regdb] CAC time syntax in regdb.txt

From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>,
	wireless-regdb@lists.infradead.org,
	Jean-Pierre TOSONI <jp.tosoni@acksys.fr>
Subject: Re: [wireless-regdb] CAC time syntax in regdb.txt
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 23:10:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150330211018.GU5622@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1427702614.26117.1.camel@sipsolutions.net>

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:03:34AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 21:42 +0100, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> 
> > This would require generating two binary files and supporting that.  This was
> > never done. We could also try to somehow mesh both versions together with one
> > larger file that has both and try to remain compatible. That's the ideal
> > solution IMHO.
> 
> Given the file format, I don't think this will be possible.
> 
> > Instead of sticking to CRDA updates to rely on this for support what we really
> > need to do is mesh in CRDA support upstream into the kernel since the kernel
> > now supports the cryptographic needs that CRDA had. I was planning on doing
> > this during the upcoming Hackweek at SUSE but if anyone else wants to try that
> > before please feel free.
> 
> And given that we want this direction anyway, I'm not sure that the
> multi-file-format CRDA solution will really be economical.
> 
> For the kernel, we should probably define an extensible file format
> anyway, and then just do it once.

Ack. I can try to address both then during Hackweek unless someone wants
to jump on it sooner.

 Luis

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