linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: stop demanding lots of new stuff

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Message-ID: <1516258057.410.55.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date:   Thu, 18 Jan 2018 07:47:37 +0100
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: stop demanding lots of new stuff

On Wed, 2018-01-17 at 14:55 -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> "make oldconfig" from 4.14 (when CONFIG_CFG80211_CERTIFICATION_ONUS
> is not set) to 4.15-rc, gets into asking lots of new questions, and
> configuring in unwanted stuff: I'm unsure of my Kconfig skills, but
> it looks like CFG80211_REQUIRE_SIGNED_REGDB's "default y" needs to
> be toned down when we don't even have CFG80211_CERTIFICATION_ONUS.

No, this is wrong - we want default configurations to be able to load a
signed regulatory database and validate the signature.

johannes