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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: rewrite Kconfig text for mesh

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On Tue, 2018-12-04 at 10:22 -0500, Bob Copeland wrote:
> Lubomir Rintel recently pointed out a dead link for o11s.org, and
> repointed it to a still live, but also stale website.  As far as I
> know, no one is updating the content at open80211s.org.
> 
> Since this Kconfig text was originally written, though, the 802.11s
> mesh drafts were approved and ultimately rolled into 802.11 proper.
> Meanwhile, the implementation has converged on the final standard,
> so we can lose all of the text here and provide something that's a
> little more helpful and accurate.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <bobcopeland@xxxxxx>

Thanks. The old text indeed fooled me into thinking that only some pre-
release version of the spec is implemented. It looks better now.

Reviewed-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@xxxxx>

> ---
>  net/mac80211/Kconfig | 11 +++++------
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/mac80211/Kconfig b/net/mac80211/Kconfig
> index f869e35d0974..6b09355dfc90 100644
> --- a/net/mac80211/Kconfig
> +++ b/net/mac80211/Kconfig
> @@ -57,14 +57,13 @@ comment "Some wireless drivers require a rate control algorithm"
>  	depends on MAC80211 && MAC80211_HAS_RC=n
>  
>  config MAC80211_MESH
> -	bool "Enable mac80211 mesh networking (pre-802.11s) support"
> +	bool "Enable mac80211 mesh networking support"
>  	depends on MAC80211
>  	---help---
> -	 This options enables support of Draft 802.11s mesh networking.
> -	 The implementation is based on Draft 2.08 of the Mesh Networking
> -	 amendment.  However, no compliance with that draft is claimed or even
> -	 possible, as drafts leave a number of identifiers to be defined after
> -	 ratification.  For more information visit http://o11s.org/.
> +	  Select this option to enable 802.11 mesh operation in mac80211
> +	  drivers that support it.  802.11 mesh connects multiple stations
> +	  over (possibly multi-hop) wireless links to form a single logical
> +	  LAN.
>  
>  config MAC80211_LEDS
>  	bool "Enable LED triggers"




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