{"id":4390,"date":"2022-12-20T17:49:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T20:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lode.uno\/linux-man\/index.php\/2022\/12\/20\/regulatory-bin-man5\/"},"modified":"2022-12-20T17:49:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T20:49:09","slug":"regulatory-bin-man5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lode.uno\/linux-man\/2022\/12\/20\/regulatory-bin-man5\/","title":{"rendered":"regulatory.bin (man5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 align=\"center\">regulatory.bin<\/h1>\n<p> <a href=\"#NAME\">NAME<\/a><br \/> <a href=\"#Description\">Description<\/a><br \/> <a href=\"#Upkeeping\">Upkeeping<\/a><br \/> <a href=\"#SEE ALSO\">SEE ALSO<\/a> <\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2>NAME <a name=\"NAME\"><\/a> <\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em\">regulatory.bin, regulatory.db \u2212 The Linux wireless regulatory database<\/p>\n<h2>Description <a name=\"Description\"><\/a> <\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em\"><b>regulatory.bin<\/b> and <b>regulatory.db<\/b> are the files used by the Linux wireless subsystem to keep its regulatory database information.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em\"><b>regulatory.bin<\/b> is read by <b>crda<\/b> upon the Linux kernel\u2019s request for regulatory information for a specific ISO \/ IEC 3166 alpha2 country code.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em\"><b>regulatory.db<\/b> is a newer, extensible database format which (since Linux 4.15) is read by the kernel directly as a firmware file.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em\">The regulatory database is kept in a small binary format for size and code efficiency. The <b>regulatory.bin<\/b> file can be parsed and read in human format by using the <b>regdbdump<\/b> command. The regulatory database files should be updated upon regulatory changes or corrections.<\/p>\n<h2>Upkeeping <a name=\"Upkeeping\"><\/a> <\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em\">The regulatory database is maintained by the community as such you are encouraged to send any corrections or updates to the linux-wireless and wireless-regdb mailing lists: <b>linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org<\/b> and <b>wireless-regdb@lists.infradead.org<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>SEE ALSO <a name=\"SEE ALSO\"><\/a> <\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em\"><b>regdbdump<\/b>(8) <b>crda<\/b>(8) <b>iw<\/b>(8)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em\"><b>http:\/\/wireless.kernel.org\/en\/developers\/Regulatory\/<\/b><\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  regulatory.bin, regulatory.db \u2212 The Linux wireless regulatory database <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[959],"tags":[961,1291,1394],"class_list":["post-4390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5-formatos-de-ficheros","tag-961","tag-man5","tag-regulatory"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lode.uno\/linux-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lode.uno\/linux-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lode.uno\/linux-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lode.uno\/linux-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lode.uno\/linux-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lode.uno\/linux-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lode.uno\/linux-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lode.uno\/linux-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lode.uno\/linux-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}