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Re: [PATCH 4/5] cfg80211: introduce strict bandwidth regulatory flag

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On Mon, 2014-01-20 at 13:02 +0100, Janusz Dziedzic wrote:
> On 20 January 2014 11:55, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 09:32 +0100, Janusz Dziedzic wrote:
> >> Introduce NL80211_RRF_STRICT_BW regulatory rule flag.
> >> This mean we will check only banwidth defined in
> >> regulatory database and not check contiguous rules.
> >
> > If you meant for this to alleviate my concerns about crda/db.txt
> > compatibility, you didn't do it right. This has no value whatsoever
> > since it still breaks things.
> >
> 
> So, maybe better introduce opposite logic here. By default always
> calculate BW as STRICT_BW - be backwards compatible with current
> crda/db.txt implementation/calculation.
> And introduce WIDE(LOOSE)_BW flag for the rules we would like
> calculate maximum bandwidth using contiguous rules?

Yeah I suppose that'd work. I think it doesn't even need to be a rule
flag, but rather a country flag?

johannes

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