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"
