[wireless-regdb] [RFC] [PATCH] crda: enforce ETSI CAC timer of 600s on the weather band

[Johannes Berg]

On Mon, 2015-04-13 at 14:18 -0500, Seth Forshee wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 08:56:36PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Mon, 2015-04-13 at 11:23 -0500, Seth Forshee wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 05:31:14PM +0200, Jean-Pierre Tosoni wrote:
> > > > A really weird patch that splits the U-NII-2e band into 1, 2 or 3
> > > > sub-bands to enforce a CAC time of 10 minutes in the range 5600-5650 MHz.
> > > 
> > > Wrong maintainer / list. CRDA patches should be directed to Luis and the
> > > linux-wireless list (feel free to Cc wireless-regdb if you like).
> > 
> > However, I'm not convinced that this actually *belongs* into the crda
> > code? That seems like the wrong approach - shouldn't these rules be
> > captured in the database? We do have AUTO-BW now so it should be
> > possible, no?
> > 
> > And if the timings aren't captured in the db.txt file they really should
> > be.
> 
> Yeah with AUTO-BW the bands could be broken up in db.txt, and we could
> even put in the CAC times. But we still can't get the CAC times into the
> current regulatory.bin format, so it doesn't really accomplish anything.

But then there's also little point in putting any code for it into the
crda binary, no?

johannes