[wireless-regdb] [PATCH v2] wireless-regdb: recent FCC report and order allows 5850-5895 immediately

[Seth Forshee]

On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 10:06:31PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Uh, sorry for the delay.
> > 
> > The first is that it seems I forgot to test build this patch before I
> > pushed it. The PTMP-ONLY flag isn't allowed by db2fw.py. This was done
> > by Johannes for reasons which aren't explained, so maybe he can shed
> > some light on it. The flag doesn't appear to be used by the kernel or
> > hostapd, so maybe it was deprecated long ago. Anyway, I've pushed a
> > change to remove this flag.
> 
> I don't remember, but quite likely we decided it was just not something
> we could implement properly or so, and never supported it? Sorry.
> 
> Clearly the kernel does nothing at all with NL80211_RRF_PTMP_ONLY.
> 
> > The second problem is more serious. I thought that we could allow 160
> > MHz bandwidth across two AUTO-BW ranges too small for this bandwidth,
> > but it turns out that the kernel rejects any rules with a bandwidth
> > greater than the frequency range of the rule. I'm not sure what we can
> > do about this. Even if the kernel were changed to support allowing
> > greater bandwidths across combined ranges, we're going to have a
> > backwards compatibility problem with older kernels.
> 
> OTOH, doesn't AUTO-BW basically ignore the max bandwidth for a given
> range anyway, seeing the code in reg_get_max_bandwidth_from_range()? So
> just keeping it at 80 with AUTO-BW would still result in 160 being
> usable? I think?

Yeah, I think you're right. So I guess the changes we ended up with
should allow 160 Mz across these ranges.

Thanks,
Seth