Return-path: Received: from s3.sipsolutions.net ([5.9.151.49]:45367 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754580AbaGUKYq (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2014 06:24:46 -0400 Message-ID: <1405938272.32255.19.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20140721_122506_152367_05490242) Subject: Re: [PATCH] wireless: fixup genregdb.awk for remove of antenna gain from wireless-regd From: Johannes Berg To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, john@x109.net, chaitanya.mgit@gmail.com, linville@tuxdriver.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, tiwai@suse.de, keescook@chromium.org, nbd@openwrt.org, "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 12:24:32 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1405372789-24733-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> (sfid-20140714_232013_505482_28009B17) References: <1405372789-24733-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> (sfid-20140714_232013_505482_28009B17) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 2014-07-14 at 14:19 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" > > Since "wireless-regdb: remove antenna gain" was merged in the > wireless-regdb tree, the awk script parser has been incompatible > with the 'official' regulatory database. This fixes that up. > Without this change the max EIRP is set to 0 making 802.11 devices > useless. > > The fragile nature of the awk parser must be replaced, but ideas > over how to do that in the most scalable way are being reviewed. > In the meantime update the documentation for CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB > so folks are aware of expectations for now. Applied. johannes