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Commit c8c240e2 authored by Johannes Berg's avatar Johannes Berg
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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: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
parent 1ea4ff3e

Documentation/networking/regulatory.txt

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@@ -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.

net/wireless/.gitignore

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regdb.c

net/wireless/Kconfig

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	  If unsure, say N.



config CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB

	bool "use statically compiled regulatory rules database" if EXPERT

	default n

	depends on CFG80211

	---help---

	  This option generates an internal data structure representing

	  the wireless regulatory rules described in net/wireless/db.txt

	  and includes code to query that database. This is an alternative

	  to using CRDA for defining regulatory rules for the kernel.



	  Using this option requires some parsing of the db.txt at build time,

	  the parser will be upkept with the latest wireless-regdb updates but

	  older wireless-regdb formats will be ignored. The parser may later

	  be replaced to avoid issues with conflicts on versions of

	  wireless-regdb.



	  For details see:



	  http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Regulatory



	  Most distributions have a CRDA package. So if unsure, say N.



config CFG80211_CRDA_SUPPORT

	bool "support CRDA" if CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB

	bool "support CRDA" if EXPERT

	default y

	depends on CFG80211

	help

net/wireless/Makefile

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@@ -14,11 +14,5 @@ cfg80211-y += mlme.o ibss.o sme.o chan.o ethtool.o mesh.o ap.o trace.o ocb.o 
cfg80211-$(CONFIG_OF) += of.o

cfg80211-$(CONFIG_CFG80211_DEBUGFS) += debugfs.o

cfg80211-$(CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT) += wext-compat.o wext-sme.o

cfg80211-$(CONFIG_CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB) += regdb.o



CFLAGS_trace.o := -I$(src)
 


$(obj)/regdb.c: $(src)/db.txt $(src)/genregdb.awk

	@$(AWK) -f $(srctree)/$(src)/genregdb.awk < $< > $@



clean-files := regdb.c

net/wireless/db.txt

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#

# This file is a placeholder to prevent accidental build breakage if someone

# enables CONFIG_CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB.  Almost no one actually needs to

# enable that build option.

#

# You should be using CRDA instead.  It is even better if you use the CRDA

# package provided by your distribution, since they will probably keep it

# up-to-date on your behalf.

#

# If you _really_ intend to use CONFIG_CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB then you will

# need to replace this file with one containing appropriately formatted

# regulatory rules that cover the regulatory domains you will be using.  Your

# best option is to extract the db.txt file from the wireless-regdb git

# repository:

#

#   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-regdb.git

#