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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 14:01:33 -0500
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On 1/23/07, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 12:59 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> .11s also introduces new frame types/subtypes that probably need to be
> ACKed which usually the firmware won't do since it doesn't understand
> those frame types/subtypes yet.

Daniel,  would the Zydas employees be interested in supplying us with
a MAC that would support the development of a software based 802.11s
stack?

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Jon Smirl
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