netdev - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 3.18 15/16] cfg80211: extend range deviation for DMG

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Message-ID: <f4c4649ac01a8a59afa1e71122b919d6b5a8aa7b.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date:   Fri, 15 Feb 2019 13:31:42 +0100
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Chaitanya Tata <chaitanya.tata@...wirelesstechnology.com>,
        Chaitanya Tata <Chaitanya.Tata@...wireless.co.uk>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 3.18 15/16] cfg80211: extend range deviation for
 DMG

On Thu, 2019-02-14 at 21:15 -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Chaitanya Tata <chaitanya.tata@...wirelesstechnology.com>
> 
> [ Upstream commit 93183bdbe73bbdd03e9566c8dc37c9d06b0d0db6 ]
> 
> Recently, DMG frequency bands have been extended till 71GHz, so extend
> the range check till 20GHz (45-71GHZ), else some channels will be marked
> as disabled.

There's not really any danger in picking this up for old kernels, but
also practically no value since those kernels wouldn't have supoprt for
the higher ranges ("recently, ...") part :)

johannes