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

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On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 11:19 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> 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>

Ok, applied the patch then. I'll send a patch for those DFS channels
momentarily, care to take of db.txt?

johannes

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