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Re: [PATCH 1/2] wireless: support internal statically compiled regulatory database

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On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 02:55:19AM +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> > +config CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB
> > +	bool "use statically compiled regulatory rules database"
> > +	default n
> > +	depends on CFG80211
> > +	---help---
> > +	  This option generates an internal data structure representing
> > +	  the wireless regulatory rules described in net/wireless/db.txt
> > +	  and includes code to query that database.  This is an alternative
> > +	  to using CRDA for defining regulatory rules for the kernel.
> > +
> > +	  For details see:
> > +
> > +	  http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Regulatory
> > +
> > +	  Most distributions have a CRDA package.  So if unsure, say N.
> 
> since it is pretty clear that people should be defaulting to CRDA, why
> not make it depend on CONFIG_EMBEDDED.

Other than expanding the amount of config options available, what are
the ramifications of selecting CONFIG_EMBEDDED?  Is it just a way of
hiding options that "normal" people don't need to see?  Or does it
have some significant change on the built kernel by itself?

John
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