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Re: [PATCH 2/2] cfg80211: avoid reg-hints in self-managed only systems

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On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-01-07 at 15:38 +0200, Arik Nemtsov wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Arik Nemtsov <arik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> On Tue, 2015-01-06 at 11:56 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
>> >>> On Thu, 2015-01-01 at 13:42 +0200, Arik Nemtsov wrote:
>> >>> > When a system contains only self-managed regulatory devices all hints
>> >>> > from the regulatory core are ignored. Stop hint processing early in this
>> >>> > case. These systems usually don't have CRDA deployed, which results in
>> >>> > endless (irrelevent) logs of the form:
>> >>> > cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
>> >>>
>> >>> Applied.
>> >>
>> >> I take that back - dropped again. This was causing spurious messages in
>> >> the hwsim test run VM, saying something like "couldn't set reg domain:
>> >> -7". Maybe at that point not a single wiphy existed?
>> >
>> > Interesting. I guess I should fix this to only drop the request in
>> > case there's at least one self-managed wiphy.
>>
>> Could you point me to the hwsim test that failed for you?
>
> I don't think it was a specific test case - the message seems to have
> come during boot. OTOH, I also reverted some of Eliad's patches, so
> perhaps I should retest without those?

It's a good check to add anyway (at least one self-managed device).
Since the regulatory queues us the world-update core hint right away..
Not sure why I haven't encountered it, I'll try to introduce some
sleep() calls to reproduce. It's a real bug I believe.

>
>> Also where is that message coming from? I don't see it in wpa_s or the kernel.
>
> I have no idea! I can't even explain where the -7 (-E2BIG) came from!

Yea that's what I was after as well. :)

Arik
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