Re: VHT support, take 2

["Luis R. Rodriguez" <rodrigue@qca.qualcomm.com>]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 03:57:07PM +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 11/16/2012 02:28 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> >On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 17:39 +0530, Mahesh Palivela wrote:
> >
> >>vht regulatory code already posted long back. After went through several
> >>back n forth emails from Luis Rodriguez, accepted the patch.
> >>But not commited anywhere.
> >>Now I have to change that to match to new structs like chan_def etc from
> >>the vht channel work patches you posted 5 days back.
> >>
> >>Also helper funcs to replace chan->flags bit checking to dynamically
> >>check channel through regulatory
> >
> >Yeah, actually I'm not sure it's that easy. We'll also need per
> >bandwidth TX power restrictions, raise the 40 MHz bandwidth restriction
> >to 160 MHz (or get rid of it entirely), etc. That seems to require a new
> >regulatory database format?
> 
> Luis discussed the regulatory framework during the wireless summit
> in Barcelona last week. My (possibly limited) recollection was that
> the current regulatory code can accommodate VHT limits as well. I
> assume that also includes the regulatory database format.

The only thing mentioned which I had not considered is the per bandwidth
TX power restrictions. Where did these come from ?

  Luis