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Posted Apr 17, 2008 22:17 UTC (Thu) by Cato (subscriber, #7643)
Parent article: Kernel release status

Does 'wireless USB' in the summary mean support for the Wireless USB standard (as in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_USB - a wireless transport for the USB protocol)?  Or is
it simply providing better support of WiFi USB dongles?  

If it's the latter, it would really reduce confusion if LWN avoids using the term "wireless
USB" in its summaries - this has happened before e.g. http://lwn.net/Articles/120223/.
However, LWN has also reported on Wireless USB support in Linux, so the best thing is to always
use the capital W if you mean Wireless USB, and use WiFi USB or similar if you mean WiFi.


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Wireless USB

Posted Apr 17, 2008 23:00 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

"Wireless USB" means "wireless USB" - I don't believe LWN has ever use the term any other way. The 2005 article you linked was for a NewsForge piece, not something LWN did...

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