[PATCH 1/2] tests: allow US channel 12 and 13

Thomas Pedersen thomas at adapt-ip.com
Wed Dec 2 19:53:17 EST 2020


On 2020-12-02 07:24, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 03:58:54PM -0700, Thomas Pedersen wrote:
>> Channels 12 and 13 were recently unlocked in the US.
>> Unbreak the scan_dfs test in case a recent regulatory
>> database is loaded.
> 
> I'm not convinced those channels should really have been enabled in
> wireless-regdb and that change was later reverted. The TX power limits
> on those channels are so small and the risk of misuse is significant, 
> so
> I don't think this is really the correct direction.. Regardless, with
> the wireless-regdb commit having been rejected, this hostap.git change
> does not seem to be needed now and I'd much rather keep that in place 
> to
> find any unintentional regression in this area.

Great, thanks for the context.

-- 
thomas



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