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SubjectRe: [cfg80211 / iwlwifi] setting wireless regulatory domain doesn't work.
On 12/18/2013 08:50 AM, Pontus Fuchs wrote:
> 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.

There is a Kconfig option to have the regulatory data built-in the
kernel as well. Obviously that makes a regulatory update more difficult.

net/wireless/Kconfig:
config CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB
bool "use statically compiled regulatory rules database" if EXPERT

Regards,
AvS



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