Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 2025-02-18 at 13:29 +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote: > > There are NO-INDOOR and NO-OUTDOOR flags for the database. The kernel > > doesn't have a matching IEEE80211_CHAN_OUTDOOR_ONLY flag though. > > Maybe that should be added? > > > > Johannes, what do you think? > > Good question. I guess we could have it, though I'm not sure we'd have > any mechanics to actually _use_ such a thing right now? Something, say > hostapd (?) would have to promise it's actually outdoors? > > More information doesn't hurt and I don't mind adding it at all, but I > do think we'd probably not be able to use it at this time. > > Or we could add it to the db.txt file but ignore it in parsing now and > skip the band for the binary for now? > > The thing is I don't think we have a good way to say "older kernel skips > this range" - or perhaps we set the NO_IR flag so older kernel cannot > use it but then allow OUTDOOR_ONLY to override that given some > conditions? > Thanks for the suggestion. I have made a patch to allow NO-INDOOR flag, but not parse into binary. Since I'm very not familiar with Python, please review the patch carefully. Thank you.
