From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Berg Subject: Re: [PATCH] Marvell Libertas 8388 802.11b/g USB driver (v2) Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:54:33 +0100 Message-ID: <1169571273.3649.12.camel@johannes.berg> References: <20070116185524.GA5681@dmt> <20070117141103.0e468bf4@griffin.suse.cz> <1169046072.2750.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1169047134.9175.49.camel@johannes.berg> <1169055788.2550.44.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1169056884.9175.66.camel@johannes.berg> <20070122112613.GA3038@dmt> <9e4733910701220720x47506091m357cbf9e5deb3903@mail.gmail.com> <1169566914.3649.4.camel@johannes.berg> <9e4733910701230818g13dc82a2kf0972b8543db449f@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-pYB8rckSVznpsRg/+Y+H" Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , Dan Williams , Jiri Benc , netdev , Jeff Garzik , "John W. Linville" , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Arnd Bergmann , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:44976 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932255AbXAWQz0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:55:26 -0500 To: Jon Smirl In-Reply-To: <9e4733910701230818g13dc82a2kf0972b8543db449f@mail.gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --=-pYB8rckSVznpsRg/+Y+H Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. johannes --=-pYB8rckSVznpsRg/+Y+H Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iD8DBQBFtj3J/ETPhpq3jKURAtorAJ9OguU0XDujBKrvam3Ubv6DHMzBWQCdGwXG QUBtMvNpth7t3AtN1MzGfdo= =9Hmp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-pYB8rckSVznpsRg/+Y+H--