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

Jouni Malinen jouni at qca.qualcomm.com
Fri Jan 23 02:37:20 PST 2015


On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 07:42:12PM -0800, Daiwei Li wrote:
> 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?

I'm not sure what the exact rationale for that part of the commit was.

> @@ -1125,6 +1125,8 @@ country US: DFS-FCC
>         (2402 - 2472 @ 40), (30)
>         (5170 - 5250 @ 80), (17), AUTO-BW
>         (5250 - 5330 @ 80), (23), DFS, AUTO-BW
> +       (5490 - 5600 @ 80), (23), DFS, AUTO-BW
> +       (5650 - 5710 @ 40), (23), DFS, AUTO-BW
>         (5735 - 5835 @ 80), (30)

AUTO-BW does not seem to make much sense here since neither new range
has immediately neighboring ranges with different flags.
 
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