Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 11:01:47 -0700
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor?= Stefanik <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] wireless: update mac80211 kconfig entry
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On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 10:47:43AM -0700, G?bor Stefanik wrote:
> 2009/9/1 Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>:
> > 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<lrodriguez@atheros.com> 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.
> 
> The description isn't the problem - the term "SoftMAC" is, due to its
> connections with ieee80211softmac. Even "Software MAC" would be better
> here.

Software MAC sounds reasonable to me. Anyone else?

  Luis