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Subject: Re: [PATCH] wireless-regdb: Update rules for Australia (AU) and add
 60GHz rules
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Ryan Mounce <ryan@mounce.com.au>,
        Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 06:58:45 +0100
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> The frequency ranges have been "rounded down" to conform with the
> apparent convention of only including ranges used by standard 802.11
> channels, rather than using the actual frequency ranges as has been
> done for some countries (and most 60GHz rules). My preference is the
> latter so that there is a clear correlation between the regdb and
> relevant documentation, and so that the regdb may become useful
> beyond 802.11. With your blessing as maintainer I will also make this
> change to the patch.

I think that's just an artifact of the original database source and
would also prefer the documented ranges to be used.

johannes