[ANN] wireless-regdb: master-2015-10-13

[ANN] wireless-regdb: master-2015-10-13

[Seth Forshee]

A new release of wireless-regdb (master-2015-10-13) is available at:

https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/wireless-regdb/wireless-regdb-2015.10.13.tar.gz

The short log of changes since the 2015-09-25 release is below.

Thanks,
Seth

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Chen-Yu Tsai (5):
      wireless-regdb: Update U-NII-2c (5470 ~ 5725 MHz) rules for Taiwan (TW)
      wireless-regdb: Update regulatory rule boundary frequencies for Taiwan (TW)
      wireless-regdb: Update 5GHz rules for US
      wireless-regdb: Add U-NII-1 (5150 ~ 5250 MHz) band for Taiwan (TW)
      wireless-regdb: Update 5 GHz rules for Taiwan (TW) to follow US

Jouni Malinen (4):
      wireless-regdb: Update regulatory rules for Uruguay (UY)
      wireless-regdb: Add VHT channel bandwidth for Russia (RU)
      wireless-regdb: Add VHT channel bandwidth for Ukraine (UA)
      wireless-regdb: Update regulatory rules for Malaysia (MY)

Seth Forshee (2):
      wireless-regdb: Update ZA rules for 5490-5710 MHz
      wireless-regdb: update regulatory.bin based on preceding changes

mac80211 and ath9k channel context

[Wim Torfs]

Hi,

The channel context is mentioned in lots of mails and pieces of code, 
but its significance or goal is never mentioned. Could someone please be 
so kind to elaborate on this?

I believe the channel context is used to provide some hardware 
abstraction towards the driver and mac, such that virtual interfaces are 
able to work "in parallel" (to their knowledge they are the sole users) 
on the hardware, even when they use different channels. When a virtual 
interface needs to perform some action (transmission,...), the channel 
is set to the corresponding channel of the interface. Furthermore is the 
activation of virtual interfaces done in a round robin manner, where 
each channel in the channel context is activated at a periodic interval.

Is this about correct, or am I gravely mistaken?

Thanks,

Kind regards,
Wim.