Return-path: Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.154]:18179 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750951AbZIARR7 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Sep 2009 13:17:59 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 22so847984fge.1 for ; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:17:59 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090901163300.GA29047@jm.kir.nu> References: <1251820465-11104-1-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> <20090901163300.GA29047@jm.kir.nu> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor_Stefanik?= Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 19:17:39 +0200 Message-ID: <69e28c910909011017o49cc8dcehe84f08baba4a7a35@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] wireless: update mac80211 kconfig entry To: Jouni Malinen Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Berg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Jouni Malinen wrote: > On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 08:54:25AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> This updates the mac80211 kconfig entry to clarify >> what it is and refer people to our wireless wiki for >> more documentation. > >> diff --git a/net/mac80211/Kconfig b/net/mac80211/Kconfig > >> - ? ? tristate "Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (mac80211)" >> + ? ? tristate "mac80211 - SoftMAC device support" > > Uh.. Do we really need to call this SoftMAC or well have that in the > title? I prefer the current text or if you want to, just move the > mac80211 into the beginning.. > > >> + ? ? ? This option enables support for a framework used by IEEE-802.11 > > s/IEEE-802.11/IEEE 802.11/ > >> + ? ? ? SoftMAC devices. SoftMAC devices allow for a finer control of the > > Again, I don't really like the term "SoftMAC" here.. > >> + ? ? ? hardware, allowing for 802.11 frame management to be done in software >> + ? ? ? for them, for both parsing and generation of 802.11 wireless frames. >> + ? ? ? Most 802.11 devices today tend to be of this type. > > s/802.11/IEEE 802.11/g > >> + ? ? ? If you have new userspace utitlities which support nl80211 you do not > > s/utitlities/utilities/ > >> + ? ? ? need wireless-extensions to support a mac80211 device. > > s/wireless-extensions/wireless extensions/ > >> + ? ? ? When built as a module it will be called as mac80211, if not sure >> + ? ? ? you should build this as a module. > > s/, if/. If/ Also, s/called as/called/ > > -- > Jouni Malinen ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?PGP id EFC895FA > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at ?http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-)