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Subject: Re: [wireless-regdb] [PATCH] regulatory: enable channels 52-64 and
 100-144 for world roaming
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 08:34:06 +0200
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On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 23:06 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
> 
> If allowed in a country, these channels typically require DFS
> so mark them as such. Channel 144 is a bit special, it's coming
> into use now to allow more VHT 80 channels, but world roaming
> with passive scanning is acceptable anyway. It seems fairly
> unlikely that it'll be used as the control channel for a VHT
> AP, but it needs to be present to allow a full VHT connection
> to an AP that uses it as one of the secondary channels.
> 
> Also enable VHT 160 on these channels, and also for channels
> 36-48 to be able to use VHT 160 there.

You guys all get a few more days for comments, then I'm merging this
next Monday. I really think it's the right thing to do, there's no
reason to prohibit passive scanning on radar channels that I know of.

johannes