Re: [PATCH v2] wireless-regdb: recent FCC report and order allows 5850-5895 immediately

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

Hi,

Uh, sorry for the delay.
> 
> The first is that it seems I forgot to test build this patch before I
> pushed it. The PTMP-ONLY flag isn't allowed by db2fw.py. This was done
> by Johannes for reasons which aren't explained, so maybe he can shed
> some light on it. The flag doesn't appear to be used by the kernel or
> hostapd, so maybe it was deprecated long ago. Anyway, I've pushed a
> change to remove this flag.

I don't remember, but quite likely we decided it was just not something
we could implement properly or so, and never supported it? Sorry.

Clearly the kernel does nothing at all with NL80211_RRF_PTMP_ONLY.

> The second problem is more serious. I thought that we could allow 160
> MHz bandwidth across two AUTO-BW ranges too small for this bandwidth,
> but it turns out that the kernel rejects any rules with a bandwidth
> greater than the frequency range of the rule. I'm not sure what we can
> do about this. Even if the kernel were changed to support allowing
> greater bandwidths across combined ranges, we're going to have a
> backwards compatibility problem with older kernels.

OTOH, doesn't AUTO-BW basically ignore the max bandwidth for a given
range anyway, seeing the code in reg_get_max_bandwidth_from_range()? So
just keeping it at 80 with AUTO-BW would still result in 160 being
usable? I think?

johannes