Re: Hostapd doesn't like crda

["Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:27:36AM -0800, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 08:18 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > > I think this wouldn't be hackish, but do we actually _know_ when crda has finished
> > > uploading regulatory information? Does it do it all in one step?
> >
> > It would go in through another nl80211 command, NL80211_CMD_SET_REG. nl80211 eventually
> > calls set_regdom() and this will set it, so if all goes well we can remove the timer
> > at the end if its active (other means can call CRDA like for 802.11d or the wireless core
> > upon initialization).
> 
> Can we have a command to _get_ regulatory settings?  I think it would be
> useful.  Then hostapd could wait until the correct settings are active.
> If it doesn't happen after some time, hostapd should exit with an error.

Yeah, I've been meaning to get to that but haven't yet, we should have
a nl80211 command which lets userspace get the entire rd structure, and maybe
some info from last_request.

> It would be even better if hostapd could wait for an event notifying of
> the regulatory settings change.

Whatever works. But as can be seen this just requires a bit of work.

  Luis