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| author | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2016-11-19 02:04:48 +0300 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2016-11-30 00:41:49 +0300 |
| commit | 0bb33e25e5c91f69304f3799609a52354dca1af4 (patch) | |
| tree | f52d9c23e0ba36efd07bed818836d06f2f8bfe25 /Documentation/driver-api/80211/introduction.rst | |
| parent | 388f9b20f98d4792f72091acac5031a99370827d (diff) | |
| download | linux-0bb33e25e5c91f69304f3799609a52354dca1af4.tar.xz | |
docs: Move the 802.11 guide into the driver-api manual
Put this documentation with the other driver docs and try to keep the top
level reasonably clean.
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/80211/introduction.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/80211/introduction.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..4938fa87691c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/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". |