Re: [v2,1/3] ath9k: Support channels in licensed bands

2017-05-13 Thread Arend Van Spriel
On 12-5-2017 21:21, Steve deRosier wrote: > Hi Ben, > > On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 7:12 AM, Ben Greear wrote: >> >> >> On 05/11/2017 04:38 AM, Kalle Valo wrote: >>> [snip] >>> o I don't know about other countries, but in Finland applying for any >>> type of license (even if just to a license to

Re: [v2,1/3] ath9k: Support channels in licensed bands

2017-05-12 Thread Ben Greear
On 05/12/2017 12:21 PM, Steve deRosier wrote: Hi Ben, On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 7:12 AM, Ben Greear wrote: On 05/11/2017 04:38 AM, Kalle Valo wrote: Simon Wunderlich writes: it seems like there was some discussion here and I wouldn't expect too many more opinions ... do you think we can h

Re: [v2,1/3] ath9k: Support channels in licensed bands

2017-05-12 Thread Steve deRosier
Hi Ben, On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 7:12 AM, Ben Greear wrote: > > > On 05/11/2017 04:38 AM, Kalle Valo wrote: >> >> Simon Wunderlich writes: >> >>> it seems like there was some discussion here and I wouldn't expect too >>> many >>> more opinions ... do you think we can have a decision based on what

Re: [v2,1/3] ath9k: Support channels in licensed bands

2017-05-12 Thread Ben Greear
On 05/11/2017 04:38 AM, Kalle Valo wrote: Simon Wunderlich writes: it seems like there was some discussion here and I wouldn't expect too many more opinions ... do you think we can have a decision based on what has been discussed here? Well, there was an excellent reply from Steve and quit

Re: [v2,1/3] ath9k: Support channels in licensed bands

2017-05-11 Thread Kalle Valo
Simon Wunderlich writes: > it seems like there was some discussion here and I wouldn't expect too many > more opinions ... do you think we can have a decision based on what has been > discussed here? Well, there was an excellent reply from Steve and quite a few "in my opinion this is safe" typ

Re: [v2,1/3] ath9k: Support channels in licensed bands

2017-05-10 Thread Ben Greear
On 05/10/2017 03:30 AM, Tom Psyborg wrote: On 9 May 2017 at 19:50, Adrian Chadd mailto:adr...@freebsd.org>> wrote: (Note note: some of those channels have non-megahertz boundaries, which means ... yeah, hello inter-operability boundaries. Hilarious.) -adrian From what I can

Re: [v2,1/3] ath9k: Support channels in licensed bands

2017-05-09 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 9 May 2017 at 05:57, Simon Wunderlich wrote: > Hey Kalle, > > it seems like there was some discussion here and I wouldn't expect too many > more opinions ... do you think we can have a decision based on what has been > discussed here? (Note: FreeBSD has had in-tree support for 4.9GHz and 900MH

Re: [v2,1/3] ath9k: Support channels in licensed bands

2017-05-09 Thread Simon Wunderlich
Hey Kalle, it seems like there was some discussion here and I wouldn't expect too many more opinions ... do you think we can have a decision based on what has been discussed here? I'd be happy to rebase the remaining patches if that is necessary. Thank you! Simon On Friday, April 21, 201

Re: [v2,1/3] ath9k: Support channels in licensed bands

2017-04-21 Thread Mathias Kretschmer
Hi all, as one of the parties who triggered this patch to be included into the main line kernel, we do support Simon's or Ben's point of view. Safeguards against accidental misuse are in place. Various patches are (have been) already in the open, so if someone wants to be evil, it can't be p

Re: [v2,1/3] ath9k: Support channels in licensed bands

2017-04-21 Thread Simon Wunderlich
Hi, On Tuesday, April 18, 2017 10:09:59 AM CEST Ben Greear wrote: > [...] > > In my personal view, we have quite a few obstacles which I consider > > "enough", but would be interesting to hear others opinions ... > > > > I'll throw in my 2-cents. This patch is treading on very dangerous g

Re: [v2,1/3] ath9k: Support channels in licensed bands

2017-04-18 Thread Ben Greear
On 04/18/2017 09:33 AM, Steve deRosier wrote: Hi, On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 7:50 AM, Simon Wunderlich mailto:s...@simonwunderlich.de>> wrote: Hi, On Tuesday, April 18, 2017 2:36:54 PM CEST Kalle Valo wrote: > Simon Wunderlich mailto:s...@simonwunderlich.de>> wrote: > > From: Ben

Re: [v2,1/3] ath9k: Support channels in licensed bands

2017-04-18 Thread Steve deRosier
Hi, (sorry, resending due to my not noticing that gmail had changed my default compose mode to HTML. Why does it randomly do that sometimes?!?!) On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 7:50 AM, Simon Wunderlich wrote: > > Hi, > > On Tuesday, April 18, 2017 2:36:54 PM CEST Kalle Valo wrote: > > Simon Wunderlich

Re: [v2,1/3] ath9k: Support channels in licensed bands

2017-04-18 Thread Simon Wunderlich
Hi, On Tuesday, April 18, 2017 2:36:54 PM CEST Kalle Valo wrote: > Simon Wunderlich wrote: > > From: Ben Greear > > > > Many chips support channels in licensed bands. Add support for those, > > along with a corresponding kernel config option to disable them by > > default. Note that these chann

Re: [v2,1/3] ath9k: Support channels in licensed bands

2017-04-18 Thread Kalle Valo
Simon Wunderlich wrote: > From: Ben Greear > > Many chips support channels in licensed bands. Add support for those, > along with a corresponding kernel config option to disable them by > default. Note that these channels are not selectable even if the > option has been compiled unless the user