This updates the mac80211 kconfig entry to clarify what it is and refer people to our wireless wiki for more documentation. Cc: Jouni Malinen <j@xxxxx> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/mac80211/Kconfig | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/mac80211/Kconfig b/net/mac80211/Kconfig index 9db4ff8..d4d3dca 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/Kconfig +++ b/net/mac80211/Kconfig @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ config MAC80211 - tristate "Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (mac80211)" + tristate "mac80211 - SoftMAC device support" depends on CFG80211 select CRYPTO select CRYPTO_ECB @@ -7,8 +7,27 @@ config MAC80211 select CRYPTO_AES select CRC32 ---help--- - This option enables the hardware independent IEEE 802.11 - networking stack. + This option enables support for a framework used by IEEE-802.11 + SoftMAC devices. SoftMAC devices allow for a finer control of the + hardware, allowing for 802.11 frame management to be done in software + for them, for both parsing and generation of 802.11 wireless frames. + Most 802.11 devices today tend to be of this type. + + mac8011 implements the cfg80211 callbacks for SoftMAC devices, + mac80211 then depends on cfg80211 for both registration to the networking + subsystem and for configuration. Configuration is handled by cfg80211 both + through nl80211 and wireless extensions. + + If you have new userspace utitlities which support nl80211 you do not + need wireless-extensions to support a mac80211 device. + + For more information refer the the wireless wiki entry on mac80211: + + http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/mac80211 + + When built as a module mac80211 will be built as mac80211.ko, if not sure + you should build this as a module. + comment "CFG80211 needs to be enabled for MAC80211" depends on CFG80211=n -- 1.6.2.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
