Return-path: Received: from mail-oi0-f52.google.com ([209.85.218.52]:34772 "EHLO mail-oi0-f52.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932426AbbD0Lek (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2015 07:34:40 -0400 Received: by oiko83 with SMTP id o83so86358473oik.1 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 04:34:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 06:34:37 -0500 From: Seth Forshee To: Kalle Valo Cc: Nuno =?utf-8?Q?Gon=C3=A7alves?= , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Ubuntu regulatory database Message-ID: <20150427113437.GA4268@ubuntu-hedt> (sfid-20150427_133444_475176_6F87F1E2) References: <20150425190912.GA1706@ubuntu-xps13> <87y4leqhu6.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 In-Reply-To: <87y4leqhu6.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 08:08:01AM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote: > Seth Forshee writes: > > > On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 06:26:34PM +0100, Nuno Gonçalves wrote: > >> I was surprised that the wireless regdb provided with Ubuntu 15.04 is > >> almost 2 years old. > >> > >> Are you aware of the reason Ubuntu is not providing a updated regdb by default? > > > > This doesn't really seem on topic for the mailing list as it's a distro > > issue. > > > > But yes, it recently came to my attention that our distro package hadn't > > been updated in a while (I don't maintain the distro package and > > obviously wasn't paying close enough attention). It will be updated > > soon. > > Oh, so does this mean that the old regdb doesn't support 80 MHz > channels? Is there any way to make it easier to update the regdb in > older Ubuntu versions? It's likely we'll start pulling in updates on a continuing basis for as long as a release is supported. It's been on the list of things to get worked out right after 15.04 releases, i.e. this week.