Return-path: Received: from mail-iw0-f204.google.com ([209.85.223.204]:64461 "EHLO mail-iw0-f204.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751395AbZIATUB (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Sep 2009 15:20:01 -0400 Received: by iwn42 with SMTP id 42so114992iwn.33 for ; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:20:03 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1251832064.24846.2.camel@johannes.local> References: <1251820465-11104-1-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> <20090901163300.GA29047@jm.kir.nu> <20090901171848.GF8261@mosca> <69e28c910909011028i25fba508t9e68fb24168193eb@mail.gmail.com> <20090901173822.GG8261@mosca> <69e28c910909011047p2ecb7f9fg84b4089a70d1be5c@mail.gmail.com> <20090901180147.GA4272@mosca> <1251832064.24846.2.camel@johannes.local> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 12:19:43 -0700 Message-ID: <43e72e890909011219l76a594a8u9471114a120fe67c@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] wireless: update mac80211 kconfig entry To: Johannes Berg Cc: =?UTF-8?Q?G=C3=A1bor_Stefanik?= , Luis Rodriguez , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 11:01 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > >> Software MAC sounds reasonable to me. Anyone else? > > Except we're not actually talking about the MAC at all. The MAC is still > in the hardware. How how about just: "mac80211 - IEEE 802.11 frame processing" Then as for referring to these type of devices I am not aware of other vocabulary for them other than SoftMAC or its derivative names. Luis