On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Jouni Malinen<j@xxxxx> wrote: > 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/ Also, s/called as/called/ > > -- > 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 > -- Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-) -- 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
