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-rw-r--r--net/wireless/Kconfig6
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/genregdb.awk35
2 files changed, 28 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/Kconfig b/net/wireless/Kconfig
index 405f3c4cf70c..29c8675f9a11 100644
--- a/net/wireless/Kconfig
+++ b/net/wireless/Kconfig
@@ -162,6 +162,12 @@ config CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB
and includes code to query that database. This is an alternative
to using CRDA for defining regulatory rules for the kernel.
+ Using this option requires some parsing of the db.txt at build time,
+ the parser will be upkept with the latest wireless-regdb updates but
+ older wireless-regdb formats will be ignored. The parser may later
+ be replaced to avoid issues with conflicts on versions of
+ wireless-regdb.
+
For details see:
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Regulatory
diff --git a/net/wireless/genregdb.awk b/net/wireless/genregdb.awk
index 40c37fc5b67c..baf2426b555a 100644
--- a/net/wireless/genregdb.awk
+++ b/net/wireless/genregdb.awk
@@ -51,32 +51,41 @@ function parse_country_head() {
function parse_reg_rule()
{
+ flag_starts_at = 7
+
start = $1
sub(/\(/, "", start)
end = $3
bw = $5
sub(/\),/, "", bw)
- gain = $6
- sub(/\(/, "", gain)
- sub(/,/, "", gain)
- power = $7
- sub(/\)/, "", power)
- sub(/,/, "", power)
+ gain = 0
+ power = $6
# power might be in mW...
- units = $8
+ units = $7
+ dfs_cac = 0
+
+ sub(/\(/, "", power)
+ sub(/\),/, "", power)
+ sub(/\),/, "", units)
sub(/\)/, "", units)
- sub(/,/, "", units)
- dfs_cac = $9
+
if (units == "mW") {
+ flag_starts_at = 8
power = 10 * log(power)/log(10)
+ if ($8 ~ /[[:digit:]]/) {
+ flag_starts_at = 9
+ dfs_cac = $8
+ }
} else {
- dfs_cac = $8
+ if ($7 ~ /[[:digit:]]/) {
+ flag_starts_at = 8
+ dfs_cac = $7
+ }
}
- sub(/,/, "", dfs_cac)
sub(/\(/, "", dfs_cac)
- sub(/\)/, "", dfs_cac)
+ sub(/\),/, "", dfs_cac)
flagstr = ""
- for (i=8; i<=NF; i++)
+ for (i=flag_starts_at; i<=NF; i++)
flagstr = flagstr $i
split(flagstr, flagarray, ",")
flags = ""