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

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Date:	Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:54:33 +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 Tue, 2007-01-23 at 11:18 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:

> Is the 802.11s Draft 1.0 spec publicly available yet? It is supposed
> to be making changes at the very lowest MAC layers. It will be hard to
> be compatible with that from user space.

Good point, it's not possible to implement this without changes to the
MAC.

> The software doesn't have to be written but there should be at least
> some design work done on how 11s should fit into the existing world
> for both a firmware and software implementation. I'd hate to see a
> different implementation for each vendor and another one for the
> software stack.

Then we'll first have to find those vendors interested in actually
changing their MAC to allow .11s I guess.

johannes

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