[Bug 278017] Wireless 11a high channels not available for use (missing in lib/lib80211/regdomain.xml)

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Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 15:46:13 UTC
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=278017

--- Comment #4 from Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to Piotr Pawel Stefaniak from comment #3)

The lib/ version gets installed into /etc and etcupdate will update it.

"Users" are not supposed to maintain it; "we are" like with any other bit
FreeBSD is distributing.  It's a lot of regulations to check sadly.  Need to
figure out a way to do a full once over check probably by now.

While people in the past were also not entirely keen on the road Linux went
down  the wireless-regdb is ISC licensed and they do have references for the
individual countries/parts of the world, so the links there are probably a good
start as well:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wens/wireless-regdb.git/tree/

I also still feel like I want more indentation or "including" on our XML file
to make it more readable.

The other thing I would love to find out is why we do split them up with the
individual mode/flags.  I once asked Sam and he said he had a good reason but
could not remember.  Maybe someone else knows.  As the "duplication" as-is also
makes it harder to maintain and the permutations we then generate go into the
100(s) if not 1000(s) by now and will only grow.

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