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Re: [PATCH] crda: handle AUTO bw setting in db2rd

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On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 10:31 +0100, Janusz Dziedzic wrote:
> On 20 February 2014 09:03, Janusz Dziedzic <janusz.dziedzic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 20 February 2014 08:59, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 08:57 +0100, Janusz Dziedzic wrote:
> >>
> >>> >> Yes, seems we should send this even this is 0.
> >>> >> Next for old kernel, all channels where BW=0 will be HT20 only.
> >>> >
> >>> > Is that really a good idea?
> >>> >
> >>> > Maybe crda should just get the logic to determine maximum bandwidth,
> >>> > like you did in the kernel, and then we can even revert the kernel code
> >>> > again?
> >>> >
> >>> Yes, this is possible to calculate this in crda (or even set this manually).
> >>
> >> Ok. Would that help older kernels? How would we handle genregdb.awk?
> >>
> > In case of older kernels we will fail (end_freq - start_freq < bw) with -EINVAL.
> > So, bw=0 (cfg calculation) seems like best idea - will work with new
> > and old kernels.
> >
> Seems cfg80211 max bandwidth calculation is best option here.
> 
> We should set BW as is in old regulatory (skip this BW=0 patches) -
> will work fine with old kernels.
> And in new regulatory add RULE flag NL80211_RRF_AUTO_BW, which will be
> checked in newer kernels and if AUTO_BW flag we will skip (end_freq -
> start_freq < bw) check and calculate maximum available bandwidth. What
> you think?

Yeah that seems reasonable.

johannes

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