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NixOS cloud images should not include references to regulatory.db #39107

Open coretemp opened 6 years ago

coretemp commented 6 years ago

Issue description

When booting an AWS NixOS machine dmesg contains:

[    4.161383] platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2

Kernel module cfg80211 contains this feature.

See https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=5814902#post5814902 for context.

Why is that kernel module loaded on the shipped 18.03 AWS image?

Steps to reproduce

I didn't try to create a minimal case, but I didn't explicitly enable wireless for example. I'd expect a mkDefault false for wireless configuration, which would then not load such kernel modules.

dezgeg commented 6 years ago

AFAICT this is not a NixOS problem but rather kernel and/or ec2 problem since cfg80211 doesn't get loaded on e.g. QEMU (and that there's that non-NixOS thread you found).

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