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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Let VHT work on 2.4Ghz
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 05:46:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56CC62BC.308@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+XVXffpNDf0-5a6cPz0aUrrRfHgKQeu09zDt5eSe1K87m__pw@mail.gmail.com>



On 02/23/2016 02:47 AM, Arik Nemtsov wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:42 AM, <greearb@candelatech.com> wrote:
>>
>> From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
>>
>> ath10k supports VHT on 2.4Ghz band.
>> If supplicant and hostapd and radio think
>> VHT should be allowed, then kernel should let them
>> try.
>
> Removing the 80Mhz check entirely is not the right way to go IMO. The
> check is there because there are countries where VHT rates are not
> allowed, even on 20MHz channels. We use the fact these countries have
> no 80MHz-allowed ranges as a crude regulatory hint to disable VHT
> entirely. I'm not sure about the regulatory landscape in these
> countries regarding VHT in 2.4GHz, but please don't break compliance
> for the 5Ghz use-case.

Maybe someone can fix the regulatory logic then?

Add a no-vht flag or whatever?

Any idea which countries this applies to?

Thanks,
Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-23 13:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-22 22:42 [PATCH] mac80211: Let VHT work on 2.4Ghz greearb
2016-02-22 22:48 ` Julian Calaby
2016-02-22 22:55   ` Ben Greear
2016-02-23 10:47 ` Arik Nemtsov
2016-02-23 13:46   ` Ben Greear [this message]
2016-02-24  8:40     ` Arik Nemtsov
2016-02-24 13:24       ` Ben Greear
2016-02-24 13:32         ` Arik Nemtsov
2016-02-24 13:37           ` Ben Greear
2016-02-24 14:25             ` Arik Nemtsov
2016-02-23 14:10 ` Johannes Berg
2016-02-23 14:18   ` Ben Greear
2016-02-23 14:22     ` Johannes Berg
2016-02-23 14:58       ` Ben Greear
2016-02-23 21:08   ` Jouni Malinen
2016-02-23 21:15     ` Ben Greear

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