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

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On Tue, 06 Feb 2024 12:47:35 +0100
Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > "wireless-regdb: Update keys and maintainer information".
> > 
> > Both `git` `master` version of `crda` and `wireless-regdb` still fail
> > `crda`'s `make verify`.
> > 
> > Should `crda` key the key update as well?  
> 
> Maybe?
> 
> But perhaps the real question is if you should still be shipping crda?
> It was last needed for kernel 4.15, and even the newest stable kernel
> based on or before it (4.14) is now EOL ...
> 
> After that, we had the regdb loaded like a firmware file including the
> signatures, so the whole crda isn't needed any more.

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!

-- 

  Sergei




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