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From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Manu Bansal <manub686@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mac80211 functionality
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 09:23:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101006132353.GB2472@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim-W8gs3UOuavAgxfurnFfH3R7M8ZJF_F-n_LFO@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 05:17:15PM -0700, Manu Bansal wrote:

> I am trying to do a soft-radio implementation on linux using mac80211
> for the parts of 802.11 MAC it implements. It appears that it does not
> do the whole MAC, instead only the MLME portion of it, and the core
> functions of carrier sensing, backoff etc are still in
> firmware/hardware. Is this understanding correct? Are the mac80211
> book and code the best references to understand this split of
> functionality, or there is a more complete/concise reference?

I think you read it correctly.

-- 
John W. Linville		Someday the world will need a hero, and you
linville@tuxdriver.com			might be all we have.  Be ready.

      reply	other threads:[~2010-10-06 13:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-06  0:17 mac80211 functionality Manu Bansal
2010-10-06 13:23 ` John W. Linville [this message]

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