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

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Message-ID: <9e4733910701231023n419a24edq790a4f811bd3f7f4@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:23:04 -0500
From:	"Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@...il.com>
To:	"Dan Williams" <dcbw@...hat.com>
Cc:	"Johannes Berg" <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	"Marcelo Tosatti" <marcelo@...ck.org>, "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 1/23/07, Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 12:14 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > On 1/23/07, Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net> wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > I haven't seen the 11s spec, are devices with softmac implementations
> > flexible enough to implement it or do they need firmware changes too?
>
> I believe it needs to at least support 4 address frames, which usually
> requires firmware changes on fullmac cards, but fully softmac cards
> (atheros, broadcom) probably would not.

I am working with the zd1211b which is also softmac. I'm willing to do
some work on 11s support for dscape but I need a spec. I'll probably
need some help too since I haven't worked on the wireless code before.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@...il.com
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