> De?: Seth Forshee [mailto:seth.forshee at canonical.com] Envoy??: lundi 13 avril 2015 21:54 > On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 09:36:33PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > On Mon, 2015-04-13 at 14:18 -0500, Seth Forshee wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 08:56:36PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2015-04-13 at 11:23 -0500, Seth Forshee wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 05:31:14PM +0200, Jean-Pierre Tosoni > wrote: > > > > > > A really weird patch that splits the U-NII-2e band into 1, 2 > > > > > > or 3 sub-bands to enforce a CAC time of 10 minutes in the range > 5600-5650 MHz. > > > > > > > > > > Wrong maintainer / list. CRDA patches should be directed to Luis > > > > > and the linux-wireless list (feel free to Cc wireless-regdb if you > like). > > > > > > > > However, I'm not convinced that this actually *belongs* into the > > > > crda code? That seems like the wrong approach - shouldn't these > > > > rules be captured in the database? We do have AUTO-BW now so it > > > > should be possible, no? > > > > > > > > And if the timings aren't captured in the db.txt file they really > > > > should be. > > > > > > Yeah with AUTO-BW the bands could be broken up in db.txt, and we > > > could even put in the CAC times. But we still can't get the CAC > > > times into the current regulatory.bin format, so it doesn't really > accomplish anything. > > > > But then there's also little point in putting any code for it into the > > crda binary, no? I agree that this belongs to db.txt and regulatory.bin rather than crda, but until the problem of defining a new format for regulatory.bin is settled, there is no other way. However I am not sure my patch should go to mainstream since in my mind it is temporary approach. But it does enforce ETSI regulations and still allow using weather frequencies. > > Just to be clear, I'm not arguing for or against the patch at all. I'm > only trying to explain why Jean-Pierre is proposing to change CRDA rather > than db.txt. Maybe I should just let him speak for himself ... > > As I understand it Jean-Pierre is looking for a stop-gap to get CAC times > into the kernel until such time as we have a file format which allows > getting them from regulatory.bin. Changing CRDA can accomplish this, > whereas modifying db.txt cannot. That's exactly what I meant. Jean-Pierre
