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From: Krishna Chaitanya <chaitanya.mgit@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 00:57:09 +0530
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Subject: Re: Formatting of db.txt
To: Matthew Stanger <matthew_stanger@trimble.com>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
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On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 10:41 PM, Matthew Stanger
<matthew_stanger@trimble.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to set antenna gain in the db.txt following the
> documentation from:
> https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/regulatory/processing_rules
>
> If I copy the example exactly show in the link:
>
> country CR:
>         (2402 - 2482 @ 40), (N/A, 20)
>         (5170 - 5250 @ 20), (3, 17)
>         (5250 - 5330 @ 20), (3, 23), DFS
>         (5735 - 5835 @ 20), (3, 30)
>
> and do a make I get a parsing error:
> dbparse.SyntaxError: Syntax error in line 288 (invalid power data)
> make: *** [regulatory.bin] Error 1
>
>  I can change freq and power levels and other settings and everything
> builds fine. What am I missing about setting antenna gain?
the (max_eirp, pwr) is an old syntax which is deprecated by commit
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sforshee/wireless-regdb.git/commit/?id=e56cd9618e3e5bf8ff96b799544b85170e34d9c3

May be we should update the doc.