[wireless-regdb] wireless-regdb: Update regulatory rules for Germany (DE) on 5GHz
Seth Forshee
seth.forshee at canonical.com
Mon May 2 06:42:26 PDT 2016
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 08:08:46PM +0200, Maximilian Engelhardt wrote:
> On Thursday 21 April 2016 08:19:38 Seth Forshee wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 08:03:16PM +0200, Maximilian Engelhardt wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > In Europe ETSI standardized the used for short range devices (SRD) [1] in
> > > ETSI EN 300 440-1 [2].
> > > According to this standard generic use equipment is allowed to transmit in
> > > the frequency range form 5725 MHz to 5875 MHz with a maximum output power
> > > of 25 mW e.i.r.p. This generic allocation also allows transmission of
> > > 802.11 devices.
> > >
> > > [3] has a list of countries and their status about the implementation of
> > > the SRD frequency bands. For the 5 GHz band this can be seen on page 38
> > > in the paragraph ANNEX 1 and the entry Annex j.
> > >
> > > Attached is a patch that adds the 5 GHz SRD band to db.txt for Germany.
> > >
> > > If it is acceptable I can provide a patch adding the 5 GHz SRD band for
> > > the
> > > other countries listed in [3].
> >
> > The changes seem okay as far as I can tell. You do need to include your
> > signed-off-by tag on the patch however, see
> > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/sforshee/wireless-regdb.git/tre
> > e/CONTRIBUTING.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Seth
>
> Hi Seth,
>
> Thanks for your reply. You can find my signed-off-by tag below together with
> the unchanged patch.
>
> I can affirm I did check this carefully with the official documents of the
> German administration for radio equipment (Bundesnetzagentur für Elektrizität,
> Gas, Telekommunikation, Post und Eisenbahnen).
>
> I noticed that the links to the other entries for Germany are broken, as the
> website design was changed and thus all old link became non functional. I can
> provide a patch fixing this if it is something that's considered useful.
>
>
> The comments to my initial mail indicated that the statement in the ERC
> recommendation I linked are alone not enough to add this frequency ranges for
> other countries. Unfortunately I don't have the possibility to do these checks
> for countries other than Germany.
>
> If there is anything I can do to help adding the SRD entries for more
> countries please let me know.
>
> Thanks,
> Maxi
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Maximilian Engelhardt <engelhardt at perisens.de>
Applied, thanks.
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