It's not hostapd itself. It's the cgi that use regdump to generate some 
lists.
There must be a way to get this list from wireless-regdb. Or we can 
generate and ship it.

Arne

Am 2021-07-09 12:20, schrieb Adolf Belka:
> Hi Arne,
> 
> On 09/07/2021 08:26, Arne Fitzenreiter wrote:
>> Removing regdump from crda package will break the hostapd webif 
>> because this is used to
>> generate the countrylist from wireless-regdb.
> I thought things had gone too smoothly. Oh well.
> 
> I have searched in the hostapd mail list for crda in the subject.
> Nothing found all the way back to mid 2020 when there was a two year
> break in any mails listed.
> 
> I can't find any way to search the body of the mails for any mention
> of crda and doing a google search for "hostapd crda" didn't flag
> anything useful up.
> 
> So I think I need to mail the hostapd list to see what their plans are
> to not use crda (with its python2 dependency) in hostapd.
> 
> Does anyone have any other thoughts on how to deal with this?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Adolf.
>> 
>> Arne
>> 
>> Am 2021-06-28 21:13, schrieb Adolf Belka:
>>> - From kernel 4.15 and onwards the function of what crda does is 
>>> built
>>> into the kernel.
>>> - Tested the removal of crda with kernel 4.14.232 and kernel 5.10.45
>>>    Country code set by "iw reg set NL" was recognised with kernel
>>> 5.10.45 and set at
>>>    the global value of 00 with kernel 4.14.232 confirming the kernel
>>> built in option is
>>>    working without the prescence of crda
>>> 
>>> Tested-by: Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org>
>>> Signed-off-by: Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org>
>>> ---
>>>  config/rootfiles/common/crda | 14 -------
>>>  lfs/crda                     | 78 
>>> ------------------------------------
>>>  2 files changed, 92 deletions(-)
>>>  delete mode 100644 config/rootfiles/common/crda
>>>  delete mode 100644 lfs/crda
>>> 
>>> diff --git a/config/rootfiles/common/crda 
>>> b/config/rootfiles/common/crda
>>> deleted file mode 100644
>>> index 5f93bc254..000000000
>>> --- a/config/rootfiles/common/crda
>>> +++ /dev/null
>>> @@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
>>> -lib/udev/rules.d/85-regulatory.rules
>>> -#root/.python-eggs
>>> -#root/.python-eggs/M2Crypto-0.21.1-py2.7-linux-xxxMACHINExxx.egg-tmp
>>> -#root/.python-eggs/M2Crypto-0.21.1-py2.7-linux-xxxMACHINExxx.egg-tmp/M2Crypto 
>>> -#root/.python-eggs/M2Crypto-0.21.1-py2.7-linux-xxxMACHINExxx.egg-tmp/M2Crypto/__m2crypto.so 
>>> -sbin/crda
>>> -sbin/regdbdump
>>> -#usr/include/reglib
>>> -#usr/include/reglib/nl80211.h
>>> -#usr/include/reglib/regdb.h
>>> -#usr/include/reglib/reglib.h
>>> -usr/lib/libreg.so
>>> -#usr/share/man/man8/crda.8.gz
>>> -#usr/share/man/man8/regdbdump.8.gz
>>> diff --git a/lfs/crda b/lfs/crda
>>> deleted file mode 100644
>>> index bd812942e..000000000
>>> --- a/lfs/crda
>>> +++ /dev/null
>>> @@ -1,78 +0,0 @@
>>> -############################################################################### 
>>> -#        #
>>> -# IPFire.org - A linux based firewall        #
>>> -# Copyright (C) 2007-2018  IPFire Team  <info(a)ipfire.org>        #
>>> -#        #
>>> -# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or 
>>> modify        #
>>> -# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published 
>>> by        #
>>> -# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or 
>>>        #
>>> -# (at your option) any later version.        #
>>> -#        #
>>> -# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 
>>>        #
>>> -# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 
>>>        #
>>> -# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the 
>>>        #
>>> -# GNU General Public License for more details.        #
>>> -#        #
>>> -# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 
>>>        #
>>> -# along with this program.  If not, see 
>>> <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.       #
>>> -#        #
>>> -############################################################################### 
>>> -
>>> -############################################################################### 
>>> -# Definitions
>>> -############################################################################### 
>>> -
>>> -include Config
>>> -
>>> -VER        = 4.14
>>> -
>>> -THISAPP    = crda-$(VER)
>>> -DL_FILE    = $(THISAPP).tar.gz
>>> -DL_FROM    = $(URL_IPFIRE)
>>> -DIR_APP    = $(DIR_SRC)/$(THISAPP)
>>> -
>>> -TARGET = $(DIR_INFO)/$(THISAPP)
>>> -
>>> -############################################################################### 
>>> -# Top-level Rules
>>> -############################################################################### 
>>> -
>>> -objects = $(DL_FILE)
>>> -
>>> -$(DL_FILE) = $(DL_FROM)/$(DL_FILE)
>>> -
>>> -$(DL_FILE)_MD5 = cac7ba8de3e2e6aa46918e0c76df7d67
>>> -
>>> -install : $(TARGET)
>>> -
>>> -check : $(patsubst %,$(DIR_CHK)/%,$(objects))
>>> -
>>> -download :$(patsubst %,$(DIR_DL)/%,$(objects))
>>> -
>>> -md5 : $(subst %,%_MD5,$(objects))
>>> -
>>> -############################################################################### 
>>> -# Downloading, checking, md5sum
>>> -############################################################################### 
>>> -
>>> -$(patsubst %,$(DIR_CHK)/%,$(objects)) :
>>> -    @$(CHECK)
>>> -
>>> -$(patsubst %,$(DIR_DL)/%,$(objects)) :
>>> -    @$(LOAD)
>>> -
>>> -$(subst %,%_MD5,$(objects)) :
>>> -    @$(MD5)
>>> -
>>> -############################################################################### 
>>> -# Installation Details
>>> -############################################################################### 
>>> -
>>> -$(TARGET) : $(patsubst %,$(DIR_DL)/%,$(objects))
>>> -    @$(PREBUILD)
>>> -    @rm -rf $(DIR_APP) && cd $(DIR_SRC) && tar axf 
>>> $(DIR_DL)/$(DL_FILE)
>>> -    cd $(DIR_APP) && sed -e "s/-Werror//g" -i Makefile
>>> -    cd $(DIR_APP) && make $(MAKETUNING)
>>> -    cd $(DIR_APP) && make install
>>> -    @rm -rf $(DIR_APP)
>>> -    @$(POSTBUILD)