From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Unable to set wireless regulatory domain
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 00:08:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201105100008.27464.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <iq9qrh$uk1$1@dough.gmane.org>
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On Monday 09 May 2011 23:46:06 walt wrote:
> On 05/09/2011 09:20 AM, John Nielsen wrote:
> > I got it working like I want by:
> > 1) Including RFKILL in my kernel config and 2) Building cfg80211,
> > mac80211, rfkill, and all parts of the ath9k driver as modules
> >
> > Just adding RFKILL to a static (module-less) kernel didn't fix it,
> > and just building cfg80211 and friends as modules without RFKILL also
> > didn't fix it; I had to do both.
>
> Some drivers contains quite a few distinct subsystems, and I can
> imagine a scenario where some section of code is executed only when
> it gets loaded by another driver module.
>
> If my SWAG is correct, then I think a bug report would be appropriate.
> Unfortunately I have no idea if I'm guessing right or wrong :)
>
> As Mick said, the same problem has been reported with alsa drivers,
> and I would consider that to be buggy behavior as well and I would
> file a bug report if I had the same problem. (But I don't.)
Funny you should say that ... I remember raising a bug at the time, only to be
told by a dev that this is what alsactl expects (i.e. alsa modules to probe in
a particular order). I was reluctant to engage in an argument with a dev
about the logic of all this, so I left happy knowing that I could hear sound
coming out of my machine again.
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Regards,
Mick
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-05 17:40 [gentoo-user] Unable to set wireless regulatory domain John Nielsen
2011-05-05 22:08 ` Mick
2011-05-05 22:52 ` Paul Hartman
2011-05-06 17:04 ` John Nielsen
2011-05-06 20:14 ` Mick
2011-05-09 16:20 ` John Nielsen
2011-05-09 18:51 ` Mick
2011-05-09 22:46 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2011-05-09 23:08 ` Mick [this message]
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