[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "wireless: allow 40 MHz on world roaming channels 12/13" has been added to staging queue

Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski herton.krzesinski at canonical.com
Fri Dec 7 16:05:18 UTC 2012


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    wireless: allow 40 MHz on world roaming channels 12/13

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Herton

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>From 46f6684f716e6390f1985b6f6e495d8a5b6ed325 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:51:34 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] wireless: allow 40 MHz on world roaming channels 12/13

commit 43c771a1963ab461a2f194e3c97fded1d5fe262f upstream.

When in world roaming mode, allow 40 MHz to be used
on channels 12 and 13 so that an AP that is, e.g.,
using HT40+ on channel 9 (in the UK) can be used.

Reported-by: Eddie Chapman <eddie at ehuk.net>
Tested-by: Eddie Chapman <eddie at ehuk.net>
Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof at qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski at canonical.com>
---
 net/wireless/reg.c |    5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/wireless/reg.c b/net/wireless/reg.c
index b01449f..4dc8347 100644
--- a/net/wireless/reg.c
+++ b/net/wireless/reg.c
@@ -134,9 +134,8 @@ static const struct ieee80211_regdomain world_regdom = {
 	.reg_rules = {
 		/* IEEE 802.11b/g, channels 1..11 */
 		REG_RULE(2412-10, 2462+10, 40, 6, 20, 0),
-		/* IEEE 802.11b/g, channels 12..13. No HT40
-		 * channel fits here. */
-		REG_RULE(2467-10, 2472+10, 20, 6, 20,
+		/* IEEE 802.11b/g, channels 12..13. */
+		REG_RULE(2467-10, 2472+10, 40, 6, 20,
 			NL80211_RRF_PASSIVE_SCAN |
 			NL80211_RRF_NO_IBSS),
 		/* IEEE 802.11 channel 14 - Only JP enables
--
1.7.9.5





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