On Mon, 2020-02-03 at 17:34 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2020-02-03 at 01:23 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Hi Ben, > > > > Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> (2020-02-02): > > > Starting with Linux 5.5, we'll enable the kernel to directly load > > > wireless regulatory information. I don't think it's that important in > > > the installer - wireless interfaces should be passively scannming for > > > APs and the APs should provide regulatory information. That's why I > > > haven't thought of adding it to the installer previously. > > > > > > However, now it would just be a case of adding two files for the kernel > > > to pick up. So perhaps a udeb would be worthwhile? > > > > Adding such a udeb (and maybe depending on it from kernel-image, or > > adding it to pkg-lists…) looks sane enough to me at first glance. > > I think it would make sense to add it as a dependency of nic-wireless- > modules-di.
I came back to this and remembered that kernel-wedge discards any dependencies on packages that it doesn't generate. Rather than changing kernel-wedge to let us avoid that, I've added wireless-regdb-udeb directly to all the package lists that include nic-wireless-modules. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The Peter principle: In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence.
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