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From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Michael Green <Michael.Green@Atheros.com>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Quan <David.Quan@Atheros.com>,
	Emmanuel Grumbach <egrumbach@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: wireless-regdb: Add A band in IL - And general point regarding tx power limits in the dbase
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:57:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100621145740.GC5332@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <93781E992CBA7843962D8B0E7D683F3C1172BD0B6D@SC1EXMB-MBCL.global.atheros.com>

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 07:51:56AM -0700, Michael Green wrote:
> Here are my comments on the proposed patch...
> 
> country IL:
> > >       (2402 - 2482 @ 40), (N/A, 20)
> > > +     (5150 - 5250 @ 40). (N/A, 200 mW), NO-OUTDOOR
> > > +     (5250 - 5350 @ 40). (N/A, 200 mW), NO-OUTDOOR, DFS

> b) I think all entries in the dbase should be in dBm (not mW).
> dBm vs. mW are absolutely equivalent. No reason to retain "mW"
> unit from the source docs.  I think this was agreed by all before,
> but wanted to reiterate.

I'm not sure I see the fuss.  If anything, using the same units as
the source docs seems less error-prone to me.  Why not stick with
the source units and let the tool do the conversion rather than risk
introducing an error in the manual conversion?

John
-- 
John W. Linville		Someday the world will need a hero, and you
linville@tuxdriver.com			might be all we have.  Be ready.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-21 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-26  6:49 [RFC] wireless-regdb: Add A band in IL Emmanuel Grumbach
2010-05-26 16:51 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-05-26 17:32   ` Grumbach, Emmanuel
2010-05-26 17:46     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-05-26 17:51       ` Grumbach, Emmanuel
2010-05-26 18:22         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-06-02 19:46           ` Emmanuel Grumbach
2010-06-02 20:29             ` ] " Michael Green
2010-06-02 21:37             ` [RFC] " Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-06-18 18:42 ` John W. Linville
2010-06-20  5:41   ` Emmanuel Grumbach
2010-06-21 14:51     ` wireless-regdb: Add A band in IL - And general point regarding tx power limits in the dbase Michael Green
2010-06-21 14:57       ` John W. Linville [this message]
2010-06-21 17:12       ` Emmanuel Grumbach
2010-06-21 17:41         ` Michael Green
2010-06-22  8:52         ` Holger Schurig
2010-06-21 19:15       ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-21 19:40         ` Luis R. Rodriguez

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