Re: wireless-regdb key change broke crda tests after 37dcea0e6e5

On Wed, 2024-02-07 at 11:19 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Johannes Berg <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 2024-02-06 at 22:27 +0000, Sergei Trofimovich wrote:
> > > 
> > > Great point! `nixpkgs` uses `crda` only as a `hostapd` depend and
> > > looking at modern `hostapd` it does not use it at all. I'll spend some
> > > time removing it downstream. Thank you!
> > 
> > Note that hostapd never directly depended on crda, it just needs/wants
> > it to have the correct regulatory information in the kernel (crda puts
> > it there) after switching the country (hostapd can do that if possible)
> > and then hostapd retrieves the information.
> > 
> > But in any case, the whole step with crda is no longer needed if you
> > have the regulatory file (and possibly signature) in place, the firmware
> > will load them as firmware files.
> 
> I assume you mean: the kernel will load them as firmware files.
> 
Haha, indeed, sorry.

johannes