[v2,1/3] ath9k: Support channels in licensed bands

[Ben Greear]

On 05/10/2017 03:30 AM, Tom Psyborg wrote:
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> On 9 May 2017 at 19:50, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org <mailto:adrian at freebsd.org>> wrote:
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>     (Note note: some of those channels have non-megahertz boundaries,
>     which means ... yeah, hello inter-operability boundaries. Hilarious.)
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>     -adrian
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> From what I can tell, it seems like as long as your both points are configured with identical settings, you can use any channel/frequency/bandwidth combination
> that hardware supports. Possibly even 802.11ac at 2.4 GHz if we got more than 100MHz of bandwidth from 2.4 to 2.5 GHz. The solution i've made myself doesn't
> include all available channels but can serve as an example: https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=353870#p353870 primary/sec HT channel option should also
> be further extended.
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> Cheers, Tom

I've successfully used 802.11ac VHT-40 on 2.4Ghz band with ath10k...it just requires a few small changes
in the mac80211 stack to allow it to be configured....just FYI.

Thanks,
Ben

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