Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:40989 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756228AbZIKTpc (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:45:32 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:35:42 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor?= Stefanik Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Holger Schurig , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Kel Modderman Subject: Re: Questions about regulatory domain & passive scanning Message-ID: <20090911193542.GK2622@tuxdriver.com> References: <200909111427.39974.hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de> <43e72e890909111136r67a305b9qc3e78a7dcb205d@mail.gmail.com> <69e28c910909111226s48ac1db9ya8fe2cce54861c1e@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In-Reply-To: <69e28c910909111226s48ac1db9ya8fe2cce54861c1e@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:26:11PM +0200, G?bor Stefanik wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez > wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Holger Schurig > > wrote: > >> Hi ! > >> > >> I'm playing with regulatory domain using wireless-testing, iw, > >> crda and ath5 on Debian. Here are some observations: > >> > >> 1) Debian sucks here > > > > We've tried a few times to poke them and after some thread exchanges > > and some changes to wirless-regdb and crda due to concerns over the > > signing stuff due to the DFSG in account for these discussions it > > seems some stuff was packaged but not sure where it went. Kel, are you > > aware of the status in this regard on Debian? > > Well, if the problem is signing, then they are always free to package > a patched crda that accepts unsigned or self-signed databases; AFAIK > GPL doesn't prohibit that (though it kinda defeats the purpose of > crda). I disagree about that defeating the purpose -- the purpose is to put the decision making into userland. The signing is a configuration issue, allowing distributions to have "trusted" configuration sources by default. -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.