Return-path: Received: from he.sipsolutions.net ([78.46.109.217]:42999 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758289Ab3CDTw0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Mar 2013 14:52:26 -0500 Message-ID: <1362426735.21028.39.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20130304_205233_450157_8A65F7D4) Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] regulatory: allow VHT channels in world roaming From: Johannes Berg To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, green@qca.qualcomm.com Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:52:15 +0100 In-Reply-To: (sfid-20130304_202018_308869_12E2D603) References: <1360797364-9430-1-git-send-email-johannes@sipsolutions.net> <1360797364-9430-2-git-send-email-johannes@sipsolutions.net> <1362095777.8330.15.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20130304_202018_308869_12E2D603) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 11:19 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Johannes Berg > wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 15:33 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > >> > For VHT, the wider bandwidths (up to 160 MHz) need > >> > to be allowed. Since world roaming only covers the > >> > case of connecting to an AP, it can be opened up > >> > there, we will rely on the AP to know the local > >> > regulations. > > > >> This seems reasonable to me but in your patch you only allow 80, not > >> 160, any reason for that? > > > > 160 doesn't fit here yet -- I think it should be enabled when/if those > > DFS channels are added, I don't see a reason they're missing there. > > True. OK I checked internally and enabling VHT80 is reasonable, as for > the DFS stuff you mentioned, you are right as well, but that should be > done through a separate patch. The only thing to consider there is > scan time increases considerably but seems like a reasonable > compromise. I'm surprised no one has had issues before with this. > > Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez Ok, applied the patch then. I'll send a patch for those DFS channels momentarily, care to take of db.txt? johannes