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Message-ID: <9e4733910701231101q5a5490b7m806b1633c177acd@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:01:33 -0500
From: "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@...il.com>
To: "Daniel Drake" <dsd@...too.org>
Cc: "Dan Williams" <dcbw@...hat.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>,
"Johannes Berg" <johannes@...solutions.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Marvell Libertas 8388 802.11b/g USB driver (v2)
On 1/23/07, Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net> wrote:
> 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.
Daniel, would the Zydas employees be interested in supplying us with
a MAC that would support the development of a software based 802.11s
stack?
--
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@...il.com
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