2012-03-21 05:28:59

by Luis R. Rodriguez

Subject: [PATCH v3] cfg80211: warn if db.txt is empty with CONFIG_CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB

From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <[email protected]>

It has happened twice now where elaborate troubleshooting has
undergone on systems where CONFIG_CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB [0]
has been set but yet net/wireless/db.txt was not updated.

Despite the documentation on this it seems system integrators could
use some more help with this, so throw out a kernel warning at boot time
when their database is empty.

This does mean that the error-prone system integrator won't likely
realize the issue until they boot the machine but -- it does not seem
to make sense to enable a build bug breaking random build testing.

[0] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Regulatory/CRDA#CONFIG_CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB

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Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]>
---

Check at init now ;)

net/wireless/reg.c | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/wireless/reg.c b/net/wireless/reg.c
index e9a0ac8..15f3474 100644
--- a/net/wireless/reg.c
+++ b/net/wireless/reg.c
@@ -388,7 +388,15 @@ static void reg_regdb_query(const char *alpha2)

schedule_work(&reg_regdb_work);
}
+
+/* Feel free to add any other sanity checks here */
+static void reg_regdb_size_check(void)
+{
+ /* We should ideally BUILD_BUG_ON() but then random builds would fail */
+ WARN_ONCE(!reg_regdb_size, "db.txt is empty, you should update it...");
+}
#else
+static inline void reg_regdb_size_check(void) {}
static inline void reg_regdb_query(const char *alpha2) {}
#endif /* CONFIG_CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB */

@@ -2322,6 +2330,8 @@ int __init regulatory_init(void)
spin_lock_init(&reg_requests_lock);
spin_lock_init(&reg_pending_beacons_lock);

+ reg_regdb_size_check();
+
cfg80211_regdomain = cfg80211_world_regdom;

user_alpha2[0] = '9';
--
1.7.10.rc1.22.gf5241