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

Ping-Ke Shih <[email protected]> Mon, 7 Jul 2025 12:14:38 +0800
Newsgroups org.infradead.lists.wireless-regdb,org.kernel.vger.linux-wireless
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Chen-Yu Tsai <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 10:46 AM Ping-Ke Shih <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > From: Ping-Ke Shih <[email protected]>
> >
> > 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.

>
> > 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.

>
> > 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.