From: "Jouni Malinen" <jkm@devicescape.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 15:59:49 -0700
To: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Cc: jketreno <jketreno@linux.intel.com>, yi.zhu@intel.com,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mac80211: add IEEE802.11e/WMM structures
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On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:49:09AM +0200, Jiri Benc wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:32:33 -0700, jketreno wrote:
> > It doesn't really look like he invented a 'new useless' prefix.  It looks
> > to me like he picked a prefix that correlates attribution of the data
> > declaration to the entity that created it.  You may not like that he
> > provided attribution, but that doesn't mean its useless.
> 
> By "useless", I meant "if you use a WLAN_ prefix like in all other #defines
> in that file, it will do the same job". Ok, I understand the argument about
> attribution, but it shouldn't be in exchange of consistency and clarity.

WLAN_ prefix is currently mostly (only?) used for values defined in
IEEE 802.11 while the WMM parameters are defined in WFA specification,
not IEEE 802.11.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA