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Re: [RFC 0/8] nl80211: add 6GHz band support

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Hi Arend, all,

Sorry. No, my thoughts aren't really more concrete, but Tova is starting
to work on this now.

> This came up in discussion with my colleagues today and I would say from 
> mac80211 perspective there is more to it than just scanning. In short 
> the 6GHz band is for HE-only operation so for example only HE rates may 
> be used. As the bitrates are in ieee80211_supported_band having a 
> separate 6GHz band seems to have a (slight?) advantage.

Hmm, that's a good point too, I hadn't really looked _too_ much at 6GHz
stuff.

Jouni, what do you think?

Perhaps we should just have both. I mean, we can treat this as a
separate band, and still have code to handle operating classes properly,
right?

johannes




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