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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: allow disabling 40MHz on 2.4GHz

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On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 13:17 -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 18:29 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > In some situations it is required that a system be
> > configured with no support for 40 MHz channels in
> > the 2.4 GHz band. Rather than imposing any such
> > restrictions on everybody, allow configuration a
> > system like that with a module parameter. It is
> > writable at runtime but only takes effect at the
> > time of the next association.
> 
> That looks like a hack to me.
> 
> Maybe it should be treated like other CRDA flags?  In fact, you can find
> this in dbparse.py in the wireless-regdb sources:
> 
>     # hole at bit 9. FIXME: Where is NO-HT40 defined?
>     'NO-HT40':          1<<10,
> 
> However, there are no other references to NO-HT40 in the wireless-regdb
> or CRDA sources.  I assume it's not implemented.

It's not a regulatory requirement, it's a coexistence requirement.

johannes

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