On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 6:47 AM, Krishna Chaitanya <chaitanya.mgit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I plan to submit a patch for awk script which can handle both db.txt formats > but could not execute it. > > Will try to submit a hack soon. OK glad to hear you will address this -- please Cc stable and specify the kernels that require this too. Please also note that there is some code on CRDA that could replace the awk script, db2rd but that just spits out regular output right now. You will have to revert the AUTO patches from wireless-regdb and CRDA right now though, but db2rd could be used as base for an implementation for something that provides the output of a general data structures just as the awk script does, that may be more manageable than the awk script, and although the code is under copyleft-next I'd be happy to make an exception to include code for a C conversion tool to data structure specifically for the kernel. Evne though C code may be better for upstream than the awk script in the long run we do need a work around for the awk stuff for stable and a C replacement won't fly for stable, so the best approach would be a fix for the awk stuff for now and then we can consider a replacement. Felix mentioned some changes to CRDA / wireless-regdb which could help with binary compatibility on the db, perhaps this needs to be coordinated with a replacement for the awk script to avoid issues like this in the future. Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
