Re: [PATCH v2] wireless-regdb: recent FCC report and order allows 5850-5895 immediately

Hi,

Uh, sorry for the delay.

The first is that it seems I forgot to test build this patch before I
pushed it. The PTMP-ONLY flag isn't allowed by db2fw.py. This was done
by Johannes for reasons which aren't explained, so maybe he can shed
some light on it. The flag doesn't appear to be used by the kernel or
hostapd, so maybe it was deprecated long ago. Anyway, I've pushed a
change to remove this flag.

I don't remember, but quite likely we decided it was just not something
we could implement properly or so, and never supported it? Sorry.

Clearly the kernel does nothing at all with NL80211_RRF_PTMP_ONLY.

The second problem is more serious. I thought that we could allow 160
MHz bandwidth across two AUTO-BW ranges too small for this bandwidth,
but it turns out that the kernel rejects any rules with a bandwidth
greater than the frequency range of the rule. I'm not sure what we can
do about this. Even if the kernel were changed to support allowing
greater bandwidths across combined ranges, we're going to have a
backwards compatibility problem with older kernels.

OTOH, doesn't AUTO-BW basically ignore the max bandwidth for a given
range anyway, seeing the code in reg_get_max_bandwidth_from_range()? So
just keeping it at 80 with AUTO-BW would still result in 160 being
usable? I think?

johannes