From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_2 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BDCBC4321A for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2019 13:04:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10C5420645 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2019 13:04:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726941AbfF1NEM (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jun 2019 09:04:12 -0400 Received: from s3.sipsolutions.net ([144.76.43.62]:50244 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726828AbfF1NEM (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jun 2019 09:04:12 -0400 Received: by sipsolutions.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1hgqXx-0001ML-7T; Fri, 28 Jun 2019 15:04:09 +0200 Message-ID: <48a43287e65e1d24082dea2cc32ca14998acb8d1.camel@sipsolutions.net> Subject: Re: [RFC 0/8] nl80211: add 6GHz band support From: Johannes Berg To: Arend Van Spriel Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Jouni Malinen , Tova Mussai Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 15:04:06 +0200 In-Reply-To: <9ba78df6-18a3-5c1c-6c57-3fa71531b460@broadcom.com> (sfid-20190527_224659_799325_3B1770C5) References: <1558353645-18119-1-git-send-email-arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com> <16aeb2310e8.2764.9b12b7fc0a3841636cfb5e919b41b954@broadcom.com> <9ba78df6-18a3-5c1c-6c57-3fa71531b460@broadcom.com> (sfid-20190527_224659_799325_3B1770C5) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.28.5 (3.28.5-3.fc28) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Hi Arend, all, Sorry. No, my thoughts aren't really more concrete, but Tova is starting to work on this now. > This came up in discussion with my colleagues today and I would say from > mac80211 perspective there is more to it than just scanning. In short > the 6GHz band is for HE-only operation so for example only HE rates may > be used. As the bitrates are in ieee80211_supported_band having a > separate 6GHz band seems to have a (slight?) advantage. Hmm, that's a good point too, I hadn't really looked _too_ much at 6GHz stuff. Jouni, what do you think? Perhaps we should just have both. I mean, we can treat this as a separate band, and still have code to handle operating classes properly, right? johannes