[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/6] package/crda: replace pycrypto by pycryptodomex
Peter Korsgaard
peter at korsgaard.com
Sun May 31 20:39:45 UTC 2020
>>>>> "Romain" == Romain Naour <romain.naour at gmail.com> writes:
> From [1]:
> "PyCryptodome is a fork of PyCrypto, which is not maintained any more
> (the last release dates back to 2013 [2]). It exposes almost the same
> API, but there are a few incompatibilities [3]."
> [1] https://github.com/OP-TEE/optee_os/commit/90ad2450436fdd9fc0d28a3f92f3fbcfd89a38f0
> [2] https://pypi.org/project/pycrypto/#history
> [3] https://pycryptodome.readthedocs.io/en/latest/src/vs_pycrypto.html
> Update the patch 0001-crda-support-python-3-in-utils-key2pub.py.patch
> since it add pycrypto.
> From [4]
> "CRDA is no longer needed as of kernel v4.15 since commit 007f6c5e6eb45
> ("cfg80211: support loading regulatory database as firmware file") added
> support to use the kernel's firmware request API which looks for the
> firmware on /lib/firmware. Because of this CRDA is legacy software for
> older kernels. It will continue to be maintained."
> [4] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/crda.git/tree/README?id=9856751feaf7b102547cea678a5da6c94252d83d#n8
> Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour at gmail.com>
> Cc: James Hilliard <james.hilliard1 at gmail.com>
Committed to 2020.02.x, thanks.
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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