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From: "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Marvell Libertas 8388 802.11b/g USB driver (v2)
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:14:28 -0500
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On 1/23/07, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> 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.

I haven't seen the 11s spec, are devices with softmac implementations
flexible enough to implement it or do they need firmware changes too?

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Jon Smirl
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