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README: add legacy notice
As if kernel v4.15 CRDA is no longer needed. Annotate this. The code will still be maintained to help older kernels. Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
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<https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/regulatory/crda>
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This is the Central Regulatory Domain Agent for Linux. It serves one
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purpose: tell Linux kernel what to enforce. In essence it is a udev
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helper for communication between the kernel and userspace. You only
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need to run this manually for debugging purposes. For manual changing
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of regulatory domains use iw (iw reg set) or wpa_supplicant (feature
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yet to be added).
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purpose: tell Linux kernel what regulatory ruels to enforce for 802.11.
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CRDA is no longer needed as of kernel v4.15 since commit 007f6c5e6eb45
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("cfg80211: support loading regulatory database as firmware file") added
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support to use the kernel's firmware request API which looks for the
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firmware on /lib/firmware. Because of this CRDA is legacy software for
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older kernels. It will continue to be maintained.
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CRDA is a udev helper for communication between the kernel and userspace. You
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only need to run this manually for debugging purposes. For manual changing of
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regulatory domains use iw (iw reg set) or wpa_supplicant.
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HOST REQUIREMENTS
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