[wireless-regdb] [PATCH] dbparse: remove usable bandwidth check

Johannes Berg johannes at sipsolutions.net
Tue Dec 4 15:02:37 EST 2012


On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 20:14 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
> 
> The kernel uses the bandwidth this way: any frequency
> rule that is required for any of the 20 MHz subchannels
> of a given channel must allow the total bandwidth.
> Therefore, this check is wrong -- a frequency rule may
> need to be specified with higher bandwidth than it has
> to allow to form e.g. HT40 out of subchannels.

This patch, and the other patch, are because we currently interpret the
rules this way:

http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/files/chans-old.pdf

johannes




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