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From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: "Thomas Bächler" <thomas@archlinux.org>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Subject: Re: WARNING at net/wireless/reg.c when wireless network is disconnected
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 10:52:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100804145258.GC17666@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C59790C.4010809@archlinux.org>

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@tuxdriver.com			might be all we have.  Be ready.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-04 14:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-04 11:36 WARNING at net/wireless/reg.c when wireless network is disconnected Thomas Bächler
2010-08-04 13:49 ` John W. Linville
2010-08-04 14:28   ` Thomas Bächler
2010-08-04 14:52     ` John W. Linville [this message]
2010-08-05 18:22       ` Luis R. Rodriguez

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