linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] wireless: fixup genregdb.awk for remove of antenna gain from wireless-regd

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Date:	Mon, 21 Jul 2014 12:24:32 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...not-panic.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	john@...9.net, chaitanya.mgit@...il.com, linville@...driver.com,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, tiwai@...e.de, keescook@...omium.org,
	nbd@...nwrt.org, "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wireless: fixup genregdb.awk for remove of antenna gain
 from wireless-regd

On Mon, 2014-07-14 at 14:19 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>
> 
> 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

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