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From: "Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: Wifi basics documents
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 11:20:40 +0100
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On 02/08/2013 10:53 AM, sl reddy wrote:
> any successions will be helpful for me

My *suggestion* would be:

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation

For what it is worth, below is some terrible ascii art.

Gr. AvS

Fullmac model:

                 user-space (libnl)
                  |
+----------+      v
| cfg80211 |------o nl80211 api
+----------+
     ^
     |
     v
+----------+
| fullmac  |------o netdev
| driver   |
+----------+

Softmac model:

                 user-space (libnl)
                  |
+----------+      v
| cfg80211 |------o nl80211 api
+----------+
     ^
     |
     v
+----------+
| mac80211 |------o netdev
+----------+
     ^
     |
     v
+----------+
| softmac  |
| driver   |
+----------+