From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pontus Fuchs Subject: Re: [cfg80211 / iwlwifi] setting wireless regulatory domain doesn't work. Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 08:50:11 +0100 Message-ID: <52B153B3.4070903@gmail.com> References: <1342235583.20131211182804@eikelenboom.it> <871324710.20131211191104@eikelenboom.it> <1937118387.20131216122200@eikelenboom.it> <52AEE60B.6030509@broadcom.com> <19210260274.20131216135644@eikelenboom.it> <1534126119.20131217104548@eikelenboom.it> <387552477.20131217213319@eikelenboom.it> <20131217212709.GB5624@decadent.org.uk> <1254825772.20131217224914@eikelenboom.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Julian Calaby , Arend van Spriel , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Linus Torvalds , "Berg, Johannes" , "Grumbach, Emmanuel" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "ilw@linux.intel.com" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "John W. Linville" , Avinash Patil To: Sander Eikelenboom , Ben Hutchings Return-path: Received: from mail-la0-f45.google.com ([209.85.215.45]:38394 "EHLO mail-la0-f45.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750961Ab3LRHuS (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Dec 2013 02:50:18 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1254825772.20131217224914@eikelenboom.it> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 2013-12-17 22:49, Sander Eikelenboom wrote: > > Indeed, I looked for a crda hook for initramfs-tools but didn't find it, so skipped that idea > for the moment. > > So if i combine the two .. it's essentially just a very bad idea to compile the wireless stuff in. > It needs a access to a userland program at module load time, or it will block forever. The canonical trick to have cfg80211 built in is to execute crda manually in your boot scripts. This will satisfy the initial request and resolve the block. Cheers, Pontus