[wireless-regdb] Incorrect power for United Kingdom 5GHz?

[Johannes Berg]

On Tue, 2015-08-25 at 15:27 +0000, Arnon.Meydav at lantiq.com wrote:
> Hi,
> In the latest released regulatory database (http://kernel.org/pub/sof
> tware/network/wireless-regdb/wireless-regdb-2015.04.06.tar.xz), 
> the transmit power of GB is 20dBm, even for the lower 5GHz channels 
> (e.g. channel 36).
> 
> country GB:
>         (2402.000 - 2482.000 @ 40.000), (N/A, 20.00)
>         (5170.000 - 5250.000 @ 80.000), (N/A, 20.00)
>         (5250.000 - 5330.000 @ 80.000), (N/A, 20.00), DFS
>         (5490.000 - 5710.000 @ 160.000), (N/A, 27.00), DFS
>         (57000.000 - 66000.000 @ 2160.000), (N/A, 40.00)
> 
> From my understanding, and from what I see in:
> http://www.digitalairwireless.com/wireless-blog/recent/quick-guide-to
> -5ghz-uk-part-1.html
> 
> The transmit power should be 23.
> 
> Is this a bug in the database, or was this restricted intentionally?
> 

A lot of the values like that were halved due to indoor/outdoor or TPC
requirements - I don't know if that's the case here though.

johannes