Return-path: Received: from mail.atheros.com ([12.36.123.2]:18316 "EHLO mail.atheros.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752597AbZIARiV convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Sep 2009 13:38:21 -0400 Received: from mail.atheros.com ([10.10.20.104]) by sidewinder.atheros.com for ; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:38:24 -0700 Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 10:38:23 -0700 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor?= Stefanik CC: Luis Rodriguez , Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] wireless: update mac80211 kconfig entry Message-ID: <20090901173822.GG8261@mosca> References: <1251820465-11104-1-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> <20090901163300.GA29047@jm.kir.nu> <20090901171848.GF8261@mosca> <69e28c910909011028i25fba508t9e68fb24168193eb@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" In-Reply-To: <69e28c910909011028i25fba508t9e68fb24168193eb@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 10:28:35AM -0700, G?bor Stefanik wrote: > On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 09:33:00AM -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 08:54:25AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > >> > + SoftMAC devices. SoftMAC devices allow for a finer control of the > >> > >> Again, I don't really like the term "SoftMAC" here.. > > > > What's a better term? > > > > "Software-based", "Software-MAC", "Software-defined", or anything that > neither implies that the stack is designed for PrismGT (the > capitalization "SoftMAC" comes from Intersil AFAIK), nor allows > confusion with ieee80211softmac (which could result if we write it > with all small letters as "softmac"). Indeed, I picked up 'SoftMAC' and 'FullMAC' terminology from the prism54 days after they decided to move in that direction as others were or already had. For better or for worse I have been using 'SoftMAC' throughout wireless.kernel.org documentation to distinguish between 'FullMAC' cards. I really have not been able to find any other suitable replacements, are there legal reasons to not use such terms? I thought 'mac80211' name was brilliant as it highlighted the main focus for the module, to focus on the MAC frame processing, I just cannot think of any description for it other than something to support SoftMAC cards. Luis