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

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Date:	Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:30:39 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>
Cc:	Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@...il.com>,
	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 Tue, 2007-01-23 at 12:59 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:

> 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.

.11s also introduces new frame types/subtypes that probably need to be
ACKed which usually the firmware won't do since it doesn't understand
those frame types/subtypes yet.

johannes

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