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Re: [PATCH v3] cfg80211: Fix regulatory check for 60GHz band frequencies

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On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 09:28:27AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-09-23 at 09:49 +0200, Vladimir Kondratiev wrote:
> > Without a fix for this even though channels 1-3 are allowed world
> > wide on the rule (57240 - 63720 @ 2160), channel 2 at 60480 MHz
> > will end up getting disabled given that it is 3240 MHz from
> > both the frequency rule start and end frequency. Fix this by
> > using 2 GHz separation assumption for the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands
> > but for 60 GHz use a 10 GHz separation before assuming a rule
> > is not part of the band.
> 
> Luis, given that you think the regulatory code in the kernel is 802.11
> specific, why are we inferring these rules from the frequencies rather
> than using the 802.11 specific information about the band that it
> represents? :-D

Its a good point freq_reg_info() is at the crux of where we do are still
agnostic to 802.11. To make this 802.11 specific and easier to read I
suspect we can require passing the chan struct and then we'd use a switch
statement for the band.

  Luis
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