Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] wireless: update mac80211 kconfig entry

["Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>]

On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 10:28:35AM -0700, Gábor Stefanik wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez<lrodriguez@atheros.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 09:33:00AM -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> >> On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 08:54:25AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> >> > +       SoftMAC devices. SoftMAC devices allow for a finer control of the
> >>
> >> Again, I don't really like the term "SoftMAC" here..
> >
> > What's a better term?
> >
> 
> "Software-based", "Software-MAC", "Software-defined", or anything that
> neither implies that the stack is designed for PrismGT (the
> capitalization "SoftMAC" comes from Intersil AFAIK), nor allows
> confusion with ieee80211softmac (which could result if we write it
> with all small letters as "softmac").

Indeed, I picked up 'SoftMAC' and 'FullMAC' terminology from the prism54 days
after they decided to move in that direction as others were or already had. For
better or for worse I have been using 'SoftMAC' throughout wireless.kernel.org
documentation to distinguish between 'FullMAC' cards. I really have not been
able to find any other suitable replacements, are there legal reasons to not use
such terms?

I thought 'mac80211' name was brilliant as it highlighted the main focus for the
module, to focus on the MAC frame processing, I just cannot think of any
description for it other than something to support SoftMAC cards.

  Luis