[wireless-regdb] [PATCH] wireless-regdb: Add back regulatory rules for US

[Daiwei Li]

Hi Seth,

Thanks for the prompt reply!

> This looks reasonable based on the documentation you linked to. I'm not
> certain about the EIRP values, but that's at least consistent with what
> was there before (i.e. they match the EIRP for the first DFS frequency
> range).
> I'm going to wait a bit to see if anyone has any comments about the
> patch, and if no one objects I'll apply it.

Indeed, I didn't know the EIRP values so I put them back to what they
were set to by QCA. Jouni,
I hope you can shed some light on where these values come from.

Thanks,
Daiwei

On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Seth Forshee
<seth.forshee at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 07:42:12PM -0800, Daiwei Li wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> We've found that our devices can't seem to operate on certain
>> frequencies (e.g. 5660MHz) being used by access points like the Apple
>> Airport Extreme and Asus RT-AC68U. I did a git bisect and found that
>> 31dc1c5eca29d039ac8f26340defe44bd7e497c1 removed that band amongst
>> others. A more recent [1] FCC source implies that these frequencies
>> should be usable with DFS.
>>
>> Does anyone know the source for the commit that removed these frequencies from?
>
> The patch came from QCA. I'm adding Jouni to the Cc. Jouni, any
> comments?
>
>> Below is a patch that adds back these frequencies:
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> wireless-regdb: Add back regulatory rules for US
>>
>> The FCC approved UNII devices operating in the
>> 5470 - 5725MHz range with radar detection and DFS
>> capabilities. See the [1] source for details.
>>
>> [1] https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/kdb/forms/FTSSearchResultPage.cfm?id=41732&switch=P
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Daiwei Li <daiweili at suitabletech.com>
>
> This looks reasonable based on the documentation you linked to. I'm not
> certain about the EIRP values, but that's at least consistent with what
> was there before (i.e. they match the EIRP for the first DFS frequency
> range).
>
> I'm going to wait a bit to see if anyone has any comments about the
> patch, and if no one objects I'll apply it.
>
> Thanks,
> Seth