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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz>,
	Jan Kaisrlik <kaisrja1@fel.cvut.cz>,
	wireless-regdb@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, bernd.lehmann@volkswagen.de,
	jan-niklas.meier@volkswagen.de, s.sander@nordsys.de
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] cfg80211: Add support for ITS-G5 band (5.9 GHz)
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 22:24:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1445027060.2370.25.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h9lqeplf.fsf@steelpick.2x.cz>

Hi,

> I thought that the regdb is for unlicensed bands with unrestricted use.
> The 5.9 GHz band is not licensed but it is restricted for ITS
> applications. 

It kind of is, at least the current one is.

> In http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=140183393707445&w=2
> Luis Rodriguez suggested that having a Kconfig option may be the way to
> go, but we may misread what he was saying.

I didn't really follow this.

> I assume that if this band will be in regdb, it will be too easy to use
> this band (e.g. by mistake) for non-ITS applications.

Does the *regulatory* actually prohibit that anyway though?

> Our goal is to make it easier for people to experiment with ITS in
> controlled environment (e.g. in a university lab). So you suggest that
> this should be enabled by providing custom regdb rather than recompiling
> the kernel with CFG80211_CERTIFICATION_ONUS?

Yes, that was exactly my thought.

johannes

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-16 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-16 11:28 [RFC PATCH 1/2] cfg80211: Add support for ITS-G5 band (5.9 GHz) Jan Kaisrlik
2015-10-16 11:28 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] ath9k: " Jan Kaisrlik
2015-10-16 12:06 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] cfg80211: " Johannes Berg
2015-10-16 16:38   ` Michal Sojka
2015-10-16 20:24     ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2015-10-16 20:46       ` Michal Sojka

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