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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] staging: r8188eu: remove 5 GHz channels from
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To:     Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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From:   Michael Straube <straube.linux@gmail.com>
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On 2/21/22 18:13, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 04:48:45PM +0100, Michael Straube wrote:
>> This driver is for chips that operate only in the 2.4 GHz band.
> 
> How do we know that?
> 

The documentation that I've found for RTL8188EU and RTL8188ETV says
that both are 2.4 Ghz only chips.

Also the old rtl8188eu driver had a TODO item to remove code that is
only valid for 5 GHz.

So I thought this can be removed. Did I miss something?

regards,

Michael