On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:26:11PM +0200, Gábor Stefanik wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez > <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Holger Schurig > > <hs4233@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi ! > >> > >> I'm playing with regulatory domain using wireless-testing, iw, > >> crda and ath5 on Debian. Here are some observations: > >> > >> 1) Debian sucks here > > > > We've tried a few times to poke them and after some thread exchanges > > and some changes to wirless-regdb and crda due to concerns over the > > signing stuff due to the DFSG in account for these discussions it > > seems some stuff was packaged but not sure where it went. Kel, are you > > aware of the status in this regard on Debian? > > Well, if the problem is signing, then they are always free to package > a patched crda that accepts unsigned or self-signed databases; AFAIK > GPL doesn't prohibit that (though it kinda defeats the purpose of > crda). I disagree about that defeating the purpose -- the purpose is to put the decision making into userland. The signing is a configuration issue, allowing distributions to have "trusted" configuration sources by default. -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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
