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author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-12-26 01:34:56 +0100 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-12-26 01:34:56 +0100 |
commit | d346f49d0badd80aa9fc699fa9c6d5b23e778eb6 (patch) | |
tree | 9e9698ffe7966fbe7ce924a30843f87cdfa2646e /Documentation | |
parent | enic: whitespace cleanup; #define cleanup; more verbose err msg (diff) | |
parent | ath9k: Fix TX poll routine (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/regulatory.txt | 24 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/regulatory.txt b/Documentation/networking/regulatory.txt index ee31369e9e5b..9551622d0a7b 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/regulatory.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/regulatory.txt @@ -188,3 +188,27 @@ Then in some part of your code after your wiphy has been registered: &mydriver_jp_regdom.reg_rules[i], sizeof(struct ieee80211_reg_rule)); regulatory_struct_hint(rd); + +Statically compiled regulatory database +--------------------------------------- + +In most situations the userland solution using CRDA as described +above is the preferred solution. However in some cases a set of +rules built into the kernel itself may be desirable. To account +for this situation, a configuration option has been provided +(i.e. CONFIG_CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB). With this option enabled, +the wireless database information contained in net/wireless/db.txt is +used to generate a data structure encoded in net/wireless/regdb.c. +That option also enables code in net/wireless/reg.c which queries +the data in regdb.c as an alternative to using CRDA. + +The file net/wireless/db.txt should be kept up-to-date with the db.txt +file available in the git repository here: + + git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-regdb.git + +Again, most users in most situations should be using the CRDA package +provided with their distribution, and in most other situations users +should be building and using CRDA on their own rather than using +this option. If you are not absolutely sure that you should be using +CONFIG_CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB then _DO_NOT_USE_IT_. |