diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index c934536c9287..bc5a75dc9944 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 98dfaa577855a551e798e3a99b934386698d2026
+refs/heads/master: 2e097dc65673ed421bbc2e49f52c125aa43a8ee6
diff --git a/trunk/net/wireless/reg.c b/trunk/net/wireless/reg.c
index eb8b8ed16155..ead9dccb5475 100644
--- a/trunk/net/wireless/reg.c
+++ b/trunk/net/wireless/reg.c
@@ -2135,11 +2135,14 @@ int regulatory_init(void)
 	/*
 	 * The old code still requests for a new regdomain and if
 	 * you have CRDA you get it updated, otherwise you get
-	 * stuck with the static values. We ignore "EU" code as
-	 * that is not a valid ISO / IEC 3166 alpha2
+	 * stuck with the static values. Since "EU" is not a valid
+	 * ISO / IEC 3166 alpha2 code we can't expect userpace to
+	 * give us a regulatory domain for it. We need last_request
+	 * iniitalized though so lets just send a request which we
+	 * know will be ignored... this crap will be removed once
+	 * OLD_REG dies.
 	 */
-	if (ieee80211_regdom[0] != 'E' || ieee80211_regdom[1] != 'U')
-		err = regulatory_hint_core(ieee80211_regdom);
+	err = regulatory_hint_core(ieee80211_regdom);
 #else
 	cfg80211_regdomain = cfg80211_world_regdom;