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Subject: Re: [RFC V2 0/8] nl80211: add 6GHz band support
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To:     Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
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Date:   Wed, 24 Jul 2019 15:46:45 +0200
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On Wed, 2019-07-24 at 15:40 +0200, Arend Van Spriel wrote:
> 
> > > The only place I could find an
> > > issue with this is in cfg80211_wext_freq(). Not sure how to deal with
> > > that so it is not part of this series.
> > 
> > Just finally break wext and say if you want to use 6 GHz you need to use
> > nl80211? :)
> 
> Probably is true for he support as well. Not sure. Have not been using wext 
> for the last decade ;-)

Me neither, our official releases don't even support it.

Btw, there's a compiler warning introduced by the first patch, I think
the fix is trivial though to add the 6GHZ in one place in mac80211
already.

johannes