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author | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2015-10-15 14:35:41 +0200 |
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committer | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2017-10-11 13:18:51 +0200 |
commit | c8c240e284b3d821011b4f680b3eaa99569b3756 (patch) | |
tree | 60988d2bd3f547435c0af3b6f428f64ccd20e736 /Documentation/networking | |
parent | 1ea4ff3e9f0b8d53e680a2bb9e8e644bf03aeb4d (diff) | |
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cfg80211: reg: remove support for built-in regdb
Parsing and building C structures from a regdb is no longer needed
since the "firmware" file (regulatory.db) can be linked into the
kernel image to achieve the same effect.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/regulatory.txt | 22 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/regulatory.txt b/Documentation/networking/regulatory.txt index 46c8d8b1cc66..381e5b23d61d 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/regulatory.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/regulatory.txt @@ -200,23 +200,5 @@ Then in some part of your code after your wiphy has been registered: Statically compiled regulatory database --------------------------------------- -In most situations the userland solution using CRDA as described -above is the preferred solution. However in some cases a set of -rules built into the kernel itself may be desirable. To account -for this situation, a configuration option has been provided -(i.e. CONFIG_CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB). With this option enabled, -the wireless database information contained in net/wireless/db.txt is -used to generate a data structure encoded in net/wireless/regdb.c. -That option also enables code in net/wireless/reg.c which queries -the data in regdb.c as an alternative to using CRDA. - -The file net/wireless/db.txt should be kept up-to-date with the db.txt -file available in the git repository here: - - git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sforshee/wireless-regdb.git - -Again, most users in most situations should be using the CRDA package -provided with their distribution, and in most other situations users -should be building and using CRDA on their own rather than using -this option. If you are not absolutely sure that you should be using -CONFIG_CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB then _DO_NOT_USE_IT_. +When a database should be fixed into the kernel, it can be provided as a +firmware file at build time that is then linked into the kernel. |