On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:45:17AM -0800, Luis Rodriguez wrote: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:41:38AM -0800, Michael Buesch wrote: > > On Sunday 25 January 2009 19:21:07 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 05:22:42AM -0800, Michael Buesch wrote: > > > > mb@quimby:~/kernel$ sudo iw reg set DE > > > > command failed: Operation already in progress (-114) > > > > > > > > I wonder why this happens. > > > > What I just did was install 2.6.28.2 and install today's compat-wireless. > > > > > > > > In dmesg I can see it succeeded once but it doesn't work anymore now. > > > > [ 973.992710] cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: DE > > > > [ 973.998576] cfg80211: Regulatory domain changed to country: DE > > > > [ 973.998630] (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp) > > > > [ 973.998691] (2400000 KHz - 2483500 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm) > > > > [ 973.998738] (5150000 KHz - 5255000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 2301 mBm) > > > > [ 973.998785] (5470000 KHz - 5650000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 3000 mBm) > > > > > > Had you called twice? > > > > yeah, once manually with iw and once with hostapd. > > > > > If so we now tell userspace when its there by -EALREADY, > > > we were just silently accepting two consecutive calls before. > > > > Well, but it makes hostapd fail. > > I think it's a bit weird to throw and error code. In general most programs > > silently return success early, if an operation was already done. > > We can prevent to propagate -EALREADY to userspace -- sure, I'll cook > up the patch. Actually we could also patch hostapd to deal with -EALREADY as a success too. Its either that or we have nl80211 return 0 instead of -EALREADY. Jouni, any preference? Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
