On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 08:54:25AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > This updates the mac80211 kconfig entry to clarify > what it is and refer people to our wireless wiki for > more documentation. > diff --git a/net/mac80211/Kconfig b/net/mac80211/Kconfig > - tristate "Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (mac80211)" > + tristate "mac80211 - SoftMAC device support" Uh.. Do we really need to call this SoftMAC or well have that in the title? I prefer the current text or if you want to, just move the mac80211 into the beginning.. > + This option enables support for a framework used by IEEE-802.11 s/IEEE-802.11/IEEE 802.11/ > + SoftMAC devices. SoftMAC devices allow for a finer control of the Again, I don't really like the term "SoftMAC" here.. > + 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. s/802.11/IEEE 802.11/g > + If you have new userspace utitlities which support nl80211 you do not s/utitlities/utilities/ > + need wireless-extensions to support a mac80211 device. s/wireless-extensions/wireless extensions/ > + When built as a module it will be called as mac80211, if not sure > + you should build this as a module. s/, if/. If/ -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA -- 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
