Re: Hostapd doesn't like crda

[Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>]

On Saturday 27 December 2008 23:08:14 Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 10:08:20PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > Please take a look at the following log:
> > http://bu3sch.de/misc/crda.JPG
> > 
> > Note the ordering of the events.
> > Hostapd starts up and tells the kernel what country we're in.
> > Then the kernel calls CRDA, _but_ hostapd goes on with its business
> > before CRDA has finished its work.
> 
> Yes, because the netlink message was completed and hostapd assumes
> everything is ready at that point. Ignoring the complexity in the kernel
> (+ CRDA as a helper), this looks like reasonable expectation to make for
> NL80211_CMD_REQ_SET_REG operation. There is no other mechanism that
> would notify hostapd (or any other program setting country for that
> matter) when the operation was actually fully completed and polling for
> channel changes up to a timeout is not very appealing either.
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't see an easy fix for this. cfg80211 would somehow
> need to block sending of the NL80211_CMD_REQ_SET_REG response until CRDA
> has completed doing whatever it is going to do (is that even something
> that cfg80211 knows when the final step was completed?).. I haven't
> taken a look at all the details, but I've asked for this kind of wait in
> the past and at least it did not seem to be trivial to add since this
> has not been fixed yet ;-).

Ok, thanks for the explanation. For now I added a workaround to the initscript
that starts hostapd which sets the regulatory and waits a seconds before starting
hostapd.

	iw reg set DE
	sleep 1
	# start hostapd...

-- 
Greetings, Michael.