netdev - Re: [PATCH] Marvell Libertas 8388 802.11b/g USB driver (v2)

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Date:	Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:41:54 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@...il.com>
Cc:	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@...ck.org>,
	Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>, Jiri Benc <jbenc@...e.cz>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...hat.com>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Marvell Libertas 8388 802.11b/g USB driver (v2)

On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 10:20 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:

> What is the general solution for 802.11s?

None yet.

> I'm working on an embedded
> design that would benefit from 11s support and I'd rather not have to
> roll my own mesh implementation in user space.

Well, there is no mesh implementation that I'm aware of, you'll want to
stick it along with the userspace MLME into wpa_supplicant.

> I'd also like to get an
> idea of what kind of hardware I need to design onto my board given
> that the 8388 is not available general consumption. My system has
> plenty of power and CPU available so a softmac type 11s solution is
> the most cost effective. It seems to me that the design of a software
> based 11s stack should be coordinated with the 8388 firmware one.

It should, but afaik no one is really working on it either way.

johannes

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