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Re: [PATCH 1/3] regulatory: allow VHT channels in world roaming

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On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 15:33 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>
>> > For VHT, the wider bandwidths (up to 160 MHz) need
>> > to be allowed. Since world roaming only covers the
>> > case of connecting to an AP, it can be opened up
>> > there, we will rely on the AP to know the local
>> > regulations.
>
>> This seems reasonable to me but in your patch you only allow 80, not
>> 160, any reason for that?
>
> 160 doesn't fit here yet -- I think it should be enabled when/if those
> DFS channels are added, I don't see a reason they're missing there.

True. OK I checked internally and enabling VHT80 is reasonable, as for
the DFS stuff you mentioned, you are right as well, but that should be
done through a separate patch. The only thing to consider there is
scan time increases considerably but seems like a reasonable
compromise. I'm surprised no one has had issues before with this.

Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

  Luis
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