Bug#927710: ath10k locks to regulatory domain US on ACPI platforms

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

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Hi,

On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 09:48:17PM +0200, Rene 'Renne' Bartsch, B.Sc. Informatics wrote:
> Package: linux-image
> Version: 4.19.28-2
> 
> The ath10k 802.11 driver reads the country code for the radio regulatory domain from the ACPI table.
> If it can't get a valid value it locks to US regulatory domain which is wrong for most countries.
> This makes Atheros devices in master mode unusable on ACPI devices in most countries.
> 
> Sven Gottschall suggested on ath10k mailing-list to return -EOPNOTSUPP in function
> ath10k_mac_get_wrdd_regulatory(struct ath10k *ar, u16 *rd) in file drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c to solve this.
> 
> 
> static int ath10k_mac_get_wrdd_regulatory(struct ath10k *ar, u16 *rd)
> {
>         return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> }

Was there a conclusion upstream?

Regards,
Salvatore