On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 12:14 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > On 1/23/07, Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 11:18 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > > > Is the 802.11s Draft 1.0 spec publicly available yet? It is supposed > > > to be making changes at the very lowest MAC layers. It will be hard to > > > be compatible with that from user space. > > > > Good point, it's not possible to implement this without changes to the > > MAC. > > > > > The software doesn't have to be written but there should be at least > > > some design work done on how 11s should fit into the existing world > > > for both a firmware and software implementation. I'd hate to see a > > > different implementation for each vendor and another one for the > > > software stack. > > > > Then we'll first have to find those vendors interested in actually > > changing their MAC to allow .11s I guess. > > I haven't seen the 11s spec, are devices with softmac implementations > flexible enough to implement it or do they need firmware changes too?
I believe it needs to at least support 4 address frames, which usually requires firmware changes on fullmac cards, but fully softmac cards (atheros, broadcom) probably would not. Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
