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| author |   David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2016-10-30 12:42:58 -0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2016-10-30 12:42:58 -0400 |
| commit | 27058af401e49d88a905df000dd26f443fcfa8ce (patch) | |
| tree | 819f32113d3b8374b9fbf72e2202d4c4d4511a60 /Documentation/80211/introduction.rst | |
| parent | firewire: net: really fix maximum possible MTU (diff) | |
| parent | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-27058af401e49d88a905df000dd26f443fcfa8ce.tar.xz linux-dev-27058af401e49d88a905df000dd26f443fcfa8ce.zip | |
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Mostly simple overlapping changes.
For example, David Ahern's adjacency list revamp in 'net-next'
conflicted with an adjacency list traversal bug fix in 'net'.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/80211/introduction.rst b/Documentation/80211/introduction.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..4938fa87691c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/80211/introduction.rst @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +============ +Introduction +============ + +Explaining wireless 802.11 networking in the Linux kernel + +Copyright 2007-2009 Johannes Berg + +These books attempt to give a description of the various subsystems +that play a role in 802.11 wireless networking in Linux. Since these +books are for kernel developers they attempts to document the +structures and functions used in the kernel as well as giving a +higher-level overview. + +The reader is expected to be familiar with the 802.11 standard as +published by the IEEE in 802.11-2007 (or possibly later versions). +References to this standard will be given as "802.11-2007 8.1.5". |