This adds a man page for the regulatory.bin file and updates the Makefile to make it the install target flexible for distributions. As part of the install you also now get the the man page. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- Makefile | 19 +++++++++++++++---- regulatory.bin.5 | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) create mode 100644 regulatory.bin.5 diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 07c3030..0171196 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -2,12 +2,16 @@ PREFIX = /usr CDRA_PATH = $(PREFIX)/lib/crda +SBINDIR ?= /sbin/ +MANDIR ?= $(PREFIX)/share/man/ + + .PHONY: all clean install maintainer-clean all: regulatory.bin key.pub.pem clean: - rm -f *.pyc + rm -f *.pyc *.gz maintainer-clean: clean rm -f regulatory.bin key.pub.pem @@ -23,6 +27,13 @@ endif key.priv.pem: openssl genrsa -out key.priv.pem 2048 -install: - install -o 0 -g 0 -m 755 -d $(CDRA_PATH) - install -o 0 -g 0 -m 644 regulatory.bin $(CDRA_PATH)/regulatory.bin +%.gz: % + gzip < $< > $@ + +# Distributions wishing to just use John's database +# can just call make install. +install: regulatory.bin.5.gz + install -o 0 -g 0 -m 755 -d $(DESTDIR)/$(CDRA_PATH) + install -o 0 -g 0 -m 644 regulatory.bin $(DESTDIR)/$(CDRA_PATH)/regulatory.bin + mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)/$(MANDIR)/man5/ + install -m 644 -t $(DESTDIR)/$(MANDIR)/man5/ regulatory.bin.5.gz diff --git a/regulatory.bin.5 b/regulatory.bin.5 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d4f80cb --- /dev/null +++ b/regulatory.bin.5 @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +.TH regulatory.bin 8 "23 January 2009" "regulatory.bin" "Linux" +.SH NAME +regulatory.bin \- The Linux wireless regulatory database + +.ad l +.in +8 +.ti -8 + +.SS +.SH Description +.B regulatory.bin +is the file used by the Linux wireless subsystem to keep its regulatory +database information. It is read by +.B crda +upon the Linux kernel's request for regulatory information for a specific +ISO / IEC 3166 alpha2 country code. The regulatory database is kept in +a small binary format for size and code efficiency. The +.B regulatory.bin +file can be parsed and read in human format by using the +.B regdbdump +command. The +.B regulatory.bin +file should be updated upon regulatory changes or corrections. + +.SH Upkeeping +The regulatory database is maintained by the community as such +you are encouraged to send any corrections or updates to the +linux-wireless mailing list: +.B linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx + +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR regdbdump (8) +.BR crda (8) +.BR iw (8) + +.BR http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Regulatory/ + -- 1.6.1.rc3.51.g5832d -- 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
