On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 09:33:19PM +0100, Sander Eikelenboom wrote: [...] > > It's the official Debian package. [...] > > I will report back when i have tested converting the wireless stuff to > > loadable modules / seeing if i can put the CRDA stuff in initrd. > > With all the wireless stuff switched to loadable modules it *does* work. > > So the problem is that: > The current code blocks all future regulatory domain setting attempts forever > (till the next reboot) > when it can't find the CRDA. This can and does happen when the modules are > compiled in and the CRDA is not in initrd. > > So from the question department: > > A) Why doesn't the code timeout the processing of a regulatory domain hint > and remove the pending request when it aborts ? > B) Why isn't the CRDA treated as firmware and placed in /lib/firmware, which > has a much greater chance of automagically appearing in initrd ? [...]
It doesn't make any logical sense to put a userland program in /lib/firmware, and it wouldn't have any effect on the initramfs builders I'm familiar with (which look at module metadata to work out which files to include from /lib/firmware). Debian official kernels use modular drivers, and neither initramfs-tools nor dracut includes wireless drivers in the initramfs. If you build a custom kernel with built-in drivers then you most likely don't need an initramfs at all. As maintainer of crda in Debian, I could add an initramfs hook that would include it in an initramfs. But I don't understand why it would be worth doing so. Why is it so useful to have wireless drivers built-in *and* an initramfs? If you think I should do this then open a bug (reportbug crda). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Life would be so much easier if we could look at the source code. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
