1*4882a593Smuzhiyun============ 2*4882a593SmuzhiyunIntroduction 3*4882a593Smuzhiyun============ 4*4882a593Smuzhiyun 5*4882a593SmuzhiyunExplaining wireless 802.11 networking in the Linux kernel 6*4882a593Smuzhiyun 7*4882a593SmuzhiyunCopyright 2007-2009 Johannes Berg 8*4882a593Smuzhiyun 9*4882a593SmuzhiyunThese books attempt to give a description of the various subsystems 10*4882a593Smuzhiyunthat play a role in 802.11 wireless networking in Linux. Since these 11*4882a593Smuzhiyunbooks are for kernel developers they attempts to document the 12*4882a593Smuzhiyunstructures and functions used in the kernel as well as giving a 13*4882a593Smuzhiyunhigher-level overview. 14*4882a593Smuzhiyun 15*4882a593SmuzhiyunThe reader is expected to be familiar with the 802.11 standard as 16*4882a593Smuzhiyunpublished by the IEEE in 802.11-2007 (or possibly later versions). 17*4882a593SmuzhiyunReferences to this standard will be given as "802.11-2007 8.1.5". 18