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From: Krishna Chaitanya <chaitanya.mgit@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 14:32:49 +0530
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Subject: Re: [RFD] mac80211: Handling local operating class in (E)CSA
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On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Krishna Chaitanya
<chaitanya.mgit@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Some AP's use local operating class in (E)CSA IE's. Currently
> mac80211 fails the parsing of those IE's and results in a
> disconnection.
>
> What is the best way to add support for local operating classes?
>
> a) Maintaining a per country operating class table in cfg80211
>
> b) Embed operating class info in regdb.txt (crda)
>
> c) Remove the usage of band to calculate frequency? I dont know
> of a generic formula to calculate this across bands. So not possible.
>
Any ideas?