Re: [wireless-regdb] [PATCH] wireless-regdb: Add 5725-5875 MHz rule for France (FR)

From: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
To: christian.suenkenberg@hfg-karlsruhe.de
Cc: wireless-regdb@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [wireless-regdb] [PATCH] wireless-regdb: Add 5725-5875 MHz rule for France (FR)
Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 08:45:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180529134551.GD3401@ubuntu-xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180529133628.GC3401@ubuntu-xps13>

On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 08:36:28AM -0500, Seth Forshee wrote:
> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 12:13:16AM +0200, christian.suenkenberg@hfg-karlsruhe.de wrote:
> > Hello Seth,
> > 
> > it looks like you confused mW and dBm in your patch.
> > Sorry for the late comment, I'm following this list only
> > occasionally.
> > 
> > Quoting Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>:
> > > Based on [1] and [2], use of short range devices in this range
> > > is now permitted in France. Add a rule for this range, using the
> > > power limit of 25 dBm as specified in these documents and in
> > > ETSI EN 300 440.
> > > 
> > > [1] https://www.arcep.fr/uploads/tx_gsavis/14-1263.pdf
> > > [2] https://www.arcep.fr/uploads/tx_gsavis/14-1263.pdf
> > 
> > The second reference was probably meant to point to:
> > http://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_en/300400_300499/300440/02.01.01_60/en_300440v020101p.pdf
> 
> Actually it was meant to be
> http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32013D0752&from=EN,
> but wrong in either case.
> 
> > > […]
> > > +        # short range devices (ETSI EN 300 440)
> > > +	(5725 - 5875 @ 80), (25)
> > 
> > This should be (14) or (25 mW).
> 
> Good catch, it's not that I confused them so much as I just forgot the
> mW. I'll fix that.

Applied the following patch.

From b2e02c0fece1966af8d2877be814b6a168bfcec0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 08:37:35 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] wireless-regdb: Fix power limit in 5725-5785 GHz rule for France

The power limit should be 25 mW and not 25 dBm. Thanks to
Christian Sünkenberg for pointing out the mistake.

Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
---
 db.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/db.txt b/db.txt
index e3bbd374d096..8963c0105f27 100644
--- a/db.txt
+++ b/db.txt
@@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ country FR: DFS-ETSI
 	(5250 - 5330 @ 80), (20), DFS, AUTO-BW, wmmrule=ETSI
 	(5490 - 5710 @ 160), (27), DFS, wmmrule=ETSI
         # short range devices (ETSI EN 300 440)
-	(5725 - 5875 @ 80), (25)
+	(5725 - 5875 @ 80), (25 mW)
 	# 60 GHz band channels 1-4, ref: Etsi En 302 567
 	(57000 - 66000 @ 2160), (40)
 

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