Re: [PATCH 1/3] wireless-regdb: Update regulatory info for CEPT countries for 6GHz listed by WiFi Alliance

Chen-Yu Tsai
2025-07-07T04:22:29Z

On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@kernel.org> wrote：
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 10:46 AM Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
> > >
> > > The regulations enabling 6GHz WiFi [1] of WiFi Alliance lists CEPT
> > > countries including
> > > - Albania (AL)
> > > - Andorra (AD)
> > > - Austria (AT)
> > > - Belarus (BY)
> > > - Belgium (BE)
> > > - Georgia (GE)
> > > - Iceland (IS)
> > > - Liechtenstein (LI)
> > > - Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of (MK)
> > > - Moldova, Republic of (MD)
> > > - Monaco (MC)
> > > - Montenegro (ME)
> > > - Norway (NO)
> > > - Russian Federation (RU)
> > > - Switzerland (CH)
> > > - Türky (TR)
> > > - Ukraine (UA)
> >
> > This is slightly confusing because the CEPT document lists 46 countries.
>
> As the (force/preferred) date mentioned in ECC/DEC/(20)01, I think
> CEPT countries should
> implement 6 GHz regulation, but to be conservative, I only add
> countries listed in
> Wi-Fi Alliance.

I see.

> >
> > > Add 6 GHz frequency entry if not being added yet.
> >
> > Please add the links to [2][3] to all of them. And could you also add
> > the link to the other countries that already have a 6 GHz entry? Just
> > so we know that they are harmonized.
>
> Did you want me filling all CEPT countries with 6 GHz entry or only
> listed countries in this commit message?
> I'd prefer latter one. Please let me know your thinking. Thank you.

Only listed ones then. However, if you do notice any of the other CEPT
countries already have 6 GHz enabled, please add it as well.

ChenYu

> >
> > > But being pending to add rules to below entires because countries are not
> > ^ entries
> > > existing yet:
> >
> > As in, no entry in the database exists?
> >
> > Probably rewrite this as:
> >
> > The following are skipped as they do not have corresponding entries in
> > the database yet. Adding an entry just for 6 GHz would cause 2.4 GHz and
> > 5 GHz bands from the world domain to stop working.
>
> Thanks for the advice.