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Subject: Re: [PATCHv6 00/18] Add support for 5 and 10 MHz channels
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Simon Wunderlich <simon.wunderlich@s2003.tu-chemnitz.de>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>,
	Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 17:08:30 +0200
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On Mon, 2013-07-08 at 16:55 +0200, Simon Wunderlich wrote:
> This patchset adds support for 5 and 10 MHz in nl80211/cfg80211/mac80211
> and enables support in ath5k and ath9k, which already support this feature
> on the driver side. 5 and 10 MHz wide channels might be useful for:
> 
>  * long shot links, as the transmissions are more robust
>  * future support for 802.11y which allows some 5 and 10 MHz channels in
>    3.6 GHz range
>  * future support for 802.11p which uses 10 MHz in 5.9 GHz range
>  * ... and more "special" applications.
> 
> This patchset enables 5 and 10 MHz channels only for OFDM, and without
> HT/MIMO/aggregation (for now). Support may be added later.

I've applied patches 1-10, not going to take the ath patches.

johannes