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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-11-15 11:56:19 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-11-15 11:56:19 -0800
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parent50895b9de1d3e0258e015e8e55128d835d9a9f19 (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next
Pull networking updates from David Miller: "Highlights: 1) Maintain the TCP retransmit queue using an rbtree, with 1GB windows at 100Gb this really has become necessary. From Eric Dumazet. 2) Multi-program support for cgroup+bpf, from Alexei Starovoitov. 3) Perform broadcast flooding in hardware in mv88e6xxx, from Andrew Lunn. 4) Add meter action support to openvswitch, from Andy Zhou. 5) Add a data meta pointer for BPF accessible packets, from Daniel Borkmann. 6) Namespace-ify almost all TCP sysctl knobs, from Eric Dumazet. 7) Turn on Broadcom Tags in b53 driver, from Florian Fainelli. 8) More work to move the RTNL mutex down, from Florian Westphal. 9) Add 'bpftool' utility, to help with bpf program introspection. From Jakub Kicinski. 10) Add new 'cpumap' type for XDP_REDIRECT action, from Jesper Dangaard Brouer. 11) Support 'blocks' of transformations in the packet scheduler which can span multiple network devices, from Jiri Pirko. 12) TC flower offload support in cxgb4, from Kumar Sanghvi. 13) Priority based stream scheduler for SCTP, from Marcelo Ricardo Leitner. 14) Thunderbolt networking driver, from Amir Levy and Mika Westerberg. 15) Add RED qdisc offloadability, and use it in mlxsw driver. From Nogah Frankel. 16) eBPF based device controller for cgroup v2, from Roman Gushchin. 17) Add some fundamental tracepoints for TCP, from Song Liu. 18) Remove garbage collection from ipv6 route layer, this is a significant accomplishment. From Wei Wang. 19) Add multicast route offload support to mlxsw, from Yotam Gigi" * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (2177 commits) tcp: highest_sack fix geneve: fix fill_info when link down bpf: fix lockdep splat net: cdc_ncm: GetNtbFormat endian fix openvswitch: meter: fix NULL pointer dereference in ovs_meter_cmd_reply_start netem: remove unnecessary 64 bit modulus netem: use 64 bit divide by rate tcp: Namespace-ify sysctl_tcp_default_congestion_control net: Protect iterations over net::fib_notifier_ops in fib_seq_sum() ipv6: set all.accept_dad to 0 by default uapi: fix linux/tls.h userspace compilation error usbnet: ipheth: prevent TX queue timeouts when device not ready vhost_net: conditionally enable tx polling uapi: fix linux/rxrpc.h userspace compilation errors net: stmmac: fix LPI transitioning for dwmac4 atm: horizon: Fix irq release error net-sysfs: trigger netlink notification on ifalias change via sysfs openvswitch: Using kfree_rcu() to simplify the code openvswitch: Make local function ovs_nsh_key_attr_size() static openvswitch: Fix return value check in ovs_meter_cmd_features() ...
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@@ -19,6 +19,14 @@ core regulatory domain all wireless devices should adhere to.
How to get regulatory domains to the kernel
-------------------------------------------
+When the regulatory domain is first set up, the kernel will request a
+database file (regulatory.db) containing all the regulatory rules. It
+will then use that database when it needs to look up the rules for a
+given country.
+
+How to get regulatory domains to the kernel (old CRDA solution)
+---------------------------------------------------------------
+
Userspace gets a regulatory domain in the kernel by having
a userspace agent build it and send it via nl80211. Only
expected regulatory domains will be respected by the kernel.
@@ -192,23 +200,5 @@ Then in some part of your code after your wiphy has been registered:
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/sforshee/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_.
+When a database should be fixed into the kernel, it can be provided as a
+firmware file at build time that is then linked into the kernel.