Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============3664126510485263207==" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: James Prestwood Subject: [PATCH] doc: add section about regulatory.db missing Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2019 09:28:48 -0700 Message-ID: <20191007162848.14158-1-prestwoj@gmail.com> List-Id: To: iwd@lists.01.org --===============3664126510485263207== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable It was found that some distros do not ship with a regulatory.db file. This is required to run some of the autotests, and if not found on the system the kernel build will fail due to some of the IWD config options which require regulatory.db. The fix is to manually download regulatory.db from git.kernel.org and place it in /lib/firmware. --- doc/test-runner.txt | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/test-runner.txt b/doc/test-runner.txt index 3660381a..2f1b4fd0 100644 --- a/doc/test-runner.txt +++ b/doc/test-runner.txt @@ -69,6 +69,16 @@ After that a default kernel with the required options ca= n be built: = $ make -j$(nproc) = +Note: If your host distribution does not contain a regulatory.db you may g= et an +error similar to when building the kernel: + +No rule to make target '/lib/firmware/regulatory.db'... + +To fix this you must download the regulatory.db manually and place it in +/lib/firmware. This can be found here: + +https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sforshee/wireless-regdb.git + Note: To catch locking related issues the following set of kernel config options may be useful: = -- = 2.17.1 --===============3664126510485263207==--