============Introduction============Explaining wireless 802.11 networking in the Linux kernelCopyright 2007-2009 Johannes BergThese books attempt to give a description of the various subsystemsthat play a role in 802.11 wireless networking in Linux. Since thesebooks are for kernel developers they attempts to document thestructures and functions used in the kernel as well as giving ahigher-level overview.The reader is expected to be familiar with the 802.11 standard aspublished 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".