On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 09:33:00AM -0700, Jouni Malinen 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 was hoping this would clarify to users a little more on what this really was instead of referring it as a generic "IEEE 802.11 stack". For example, I'd expect a few users to be a bit puzzled why a cfg80211 driver did not make use of the "IEEE 802.11 stack". > I prefer the current text or if you want to, just move the > mac80211 into the beginning.. I am not sure if this would be clear to users, as cfg80211 grows driver support I think a clearer distinction would help. But then again that's just my thoughts on this. An alternative to accomplish what I want to do -- which is to educate users -- is to keep just change this as you suggest as: "mac80211 - IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack" but then also educate that a "IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack" is only required for certain types of devices. This still seems a bit confusing to me though. Would like your opinion on how to best educate users on this taxonomy. > > + 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.. What's a better term? > > + 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/ Thanks for the review, will fix the typos, and will re-send after further feedback on the taxonomy. Luis -- 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
