From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jon Smirl" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Marvell Libertas 8388 802.11b/g USB driver (v2) Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:23:04 -0500 Message-ID: <9e4733910701231023n419a24edq790a4f811bd3f7f4@mail.gmail.com> References: <20070116185524.GA5681@dmt> <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> <1169571273.3649.12.camel@johannes.berg> <9e4733910701230914t52b39f2dha00ddfcec22fd3bd@mail.gmail.com> <1169575198.2777.37.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Johannes Berg" , "Marcelo Tosatti" , "Jiri Benc" , netdev , "Jeff Garzik" , "John W. Linville" , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , "Arnd Bergmann" , "Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo" Return-path: Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.224]:51587 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932955AbXAWSXL (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:23:11 -0500 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s1so1210238nze for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:23:05 -0800 (PST) To: "Dan Williams" In-Reply-To: <1169575198.2777.37.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 1/23/07, Dan Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 12:14 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > > On 1/23/07, Johannes Berg 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? > > I believe it needs to at least support 4 address frames, which usually > requires firmware changes on fullmac cards, but fully softmac cards > (atheros, broadcom) probably would not. I am working with the zd1211b which is also softmac. I'm willing to do some work on 11s support for dscape but I need a spec. I'll probably need some help too since I haven't worked on the wireless code before. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com