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From: Luis R. Rodriguez on 5 Aug 2010 14:30 On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:52 AM, John W. Linville <linville(a)tuxdriver.com> wrote: > 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. It just needs to be implemented. Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ |