[wireless-regdb] wireless-regdb: update CA rules for 5600 - 5650 mHz

[Wei Zhong]

Thanks for the reply. I'll fix the format and re-submit.

On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 6:48 AM, Seth Forshee <seth.forshee at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 10:44:09PM -0700, Wei Zhong wrote:
>> commit 2fef4cad8a1bd9cbbf178e59a1b3ca672b057095
>> Author: Wei Zhong <wzhong at google.com>
>> Date:   Wed Jul 1 22:39:09 2015 -0700
>>
>>     wireless-regdb: update CA rules for 5600 - 5650 mHz
>>
>>     Related regulation:
>>     http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/smt-gst.nsf/eng/sf10971.html#s6.2.3
>>
>>     Frequency Bands 5470-5600 MHz and 5650-5725 MHz
>>     Until further notice, devices subject to this section [i.e. Wifi device
>>     supporting 5 GHz bands] shall not be capable of transmitting in the band
>>     5600-5650 MHz. This restriction is for the protection of Environment
>>     Canada’s weather radars operating in this band.
>
> Thanks for the patch. There are a couple of issues though, plus a
> question.
>
> First, this project requires that you add a Signed-off-by tag to the
> commit message to acknowledge your agreement to the Developer
> Certificate of Origin. Please see the CONTRIBUTING file for more
> information.
>
> Second, the patch is not in the correct format. It looks like to me you
> pasted the output from git-show, which resulted in mangled white space
> and other issues. Please use git-format-patch to create the patch, then
> send it using git-send-email or else send the patch as an attachment.
>
>> diff --git a/db.txt b/db.txt
>> index 809cd3c..da0cfad 100644
>> --- a/db.txt
>> +++ b/db.txt
>> @@ -216,7 +216,8 @@ country CA: DFS-FCC
>>         (2402 - 2472 @ 40), (30)
>>         (5170 - 5250 @ 80), (17), AUTO-BW
>>         (5250 - 5330 @ 80), (24), DFS, AUTO-BW
>> -       (5490 - 5730 @ 160), (24), DFS
>> +       (5490 - 5600 @ 80), (24), DFS
>> +       (5650 - 5730 @ 40), (24), DFS
>
> Why isn't 80MHz channel bandwidth allowed in the 5650-5730 range?

It could. But since the entire band is only 80 MHz, in practice, not a single
center_freq, channel 136 or140 for example, can utilities 80 MHz, right?

>
> Thanks,
> Seth