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

Johannes Berg johannes at sipsolutions.net
Tue Dec 4 15:03:30 EST 2012


On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 21:02 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 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

Let me attach that for the archives ...

johannes
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