On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 04:28:28PM +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 04.08.2010 15:49, schrieb John W. Linville: > > On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 01:36:23PM +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> this warning has been around ever since I switched to 2.6.34, has > >> accompanied me through the 2.6.35-rc* phase and is still there with > >> 2.6.35. I didn't bother to report it so far, as there seems to be no harm. > >> > >> Whenever I disconnect/get disconnected from the wireless, I receive the > >> below warning: > >> > >> ------------[ cut here ]------------ > >> WARNING: at net/wireless/reg.c:272 > >> regulatory_hint_disconnect+0x1b3/0x230 [cfg80211]() > >> Hardware name: TECRA A11 > >> Unexpected user alpha2: de > > > > Perhaps you need to set the regdomain as "DE" rather than "de"? > > > > John > > You are actually right. I did set it to "DE" with iw, but wpa_supplicant > had a setting country="de". I just fixed that and will soon see if the > problem disappears. > > Still, the warning shouldn't look like a bad kernel bug, but rather an > advisory to the user to set something sane. What confuses me even more > is that this has been set to DE afterwards: Perhaps we should just upcase the alpha2 value? I'm not sure why we don't. > $ dmesg | grep cfg80211:\ Calling\ CRDA > cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain > cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: de > cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: DE > cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain > cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: DE > cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain > cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: DE > cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain > cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: DE > cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain > cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: DE > cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain > cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: DE > > The AP has been playing with the regdom as well, I lost track of what > has been set where in this mess. The AP is probably sending a country IE that indicates "DE". John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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
