Am Samstag 27 Dezember 2008 schrieb Thomas Bächler:
Tobias Powalowski schrieb:
Hi guys, new kernel adresses the following things: - bump to latest major version - atl2 moved into mainline kernel - wlan-ng26 moved into staging directory of kernel development - for the cool stuff please refer to: http://kernelnewbies.org
please signoff for both arches
all binary modules have been rebuilt too, please test if they work properly.
greetings tpowa
I am opposed to the deprecated CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY=y option in the configuration. With this option, the wireless configuration (cfg80211) uses the hardcoded limited regulatory information that is inside the kernel. Without this option, we can use crda to supply this information (a working PKGBUILD is in crda/trunk). The wireless guys only keep this option around "because distributions don't ship crda". Here is the text about this option: For now we leave an option to enable the old module parameter, ieee80211_regdom, and to build the 3 old regdomains statically (US, JP and EU). This option is CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY. These old static definitions and the module parameter is being scheduled for removal for 2.6.29. Note that if you use this you won't make use of a world regulatory domain as its pointless. If you leave this option enabled and if CRDA is present and you use US or JP we will try to ask CRDA to update us a regulatory domain for us.
suggestions? should i disable it for next release? I don't use this roaming stuff at all. Thomas you could add your wireless stuff to testing too now. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org