Re: [RFC 0/8] nl80211: add 6GHz band support

[Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>]

On 5/27/2019 10:46 PM, Arend Van Spriel wrote:
> On 5/24/2019 8:38 PM, Arend Van Spriel wrote:
>> On May 24, 2019 1:56:43 PM Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Arend,
>>>
>>> On Mon, 2019-05-20 at 14:00 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>>>> In 802.11ax D4.0 a new band has been proposed. This series contains
>>>> changes to cfg80211 for supporting this band. With 2GHz and 5GHz there
>>>> was no overlap in channel number. However, this new band has channel
>>>> numbers with a range from 1 up to 253.
>>>
>>> At the wireless workshop in Prague, we looked at this and sort of
>>> decided that it'd be better to put all the 6 GHz channels into the 5 GHz
>>> "band" in nl80211, to avoid all the "5 || 6" since they're really the
>>> same except for very specific places like scanning.
>>
>> Would have liked to be there, but attending is no longer an option for 
>> me. We now have two autistic, non-verbal children and I am the primary 
>> caregiver for the oldest because my wife can't handle him. Guess I 
>> should have checked the workshop notes before working on this :-) Do 
>> you have URL?
> 
> Found the netdev wifi workshop page and looked over the slides quickly, 
> but the notes page is pretty empty ;-)
> 
>> Agree that most functional requirements for 6 GHz are same as 5 GHz. 
>> There are some 6 GHz specifics about beaconing as well.
> 
> 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.

Hi, Johannes

Any thoughts on this?

Regards,
Arend