Re: [PATCH] Marvell Libertas 8388 802.11b/g USB driver (v2)

On 1/23/07, Johannes Berg [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 10:20 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:

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What is the general solution for 802.11s?

None yet.

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I'm working on an embedded
design that would benefit from 11s support and I'd rather not have to
roll my own mesh implementation in user space.

Well, there is no mesh implementation that I'm aware of, you'll want to
stick it along with the userspace MLME into wpa_supplicant.

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.

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I'd also like to get an
idea of what kind of hardware I need to design onto my board given
that the 8388 is not available general consumption. My system has
plenty of power and CPU available so a softmac type 11s solution is
the most cost effective. It seems to me that the design of a software
based 11s stack should be coordinated with the 8388 firmware one.

It should, but afaik no one is really working on it either way.

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.

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Jon Smirl
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