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diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
index 300e1707893f..9ebd1f00c6e7 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ DOCBOOKS := wanbook.xml z8530book.xml mcabook.xml videobook.xml \
             procfs-guide.xml writing_usb_driver.xml networking.xml \
             kernel-api.xml filesystems.xml lsm.xml usb.xml \
             gadget.xml libata.xml mtdnand.xml librs.xml rapidio.xml \
-            genericirq.xml s390-drivers.xml uio-howto.xml scsi.xml
+            genericirq.xml s390-drivers.xml uio-howto.xml scsi.xml \
+            mac80211.xml
 
 ###
 # The build process is as follows (targets):
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/mac80211.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/mac80211.tmpl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b651e0a4b1c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/mac80211.tmpl
@@ -0,0 +1,335 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
+        "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" []>
+
+<book id="mac80211-developers-guide">
+  <bookinfo>
+    <title>The mac80211 subsystem for kernel developers</title>
+
+    <authorgroup>
+      <author>
+        <firstname>Johannes</firstname>
+        <surname>Berg</surname>
+        <affiliation>
+          <address><email>johannes@sipsolutions.net</email></address>
+        </affiliation>
+      </author>
+    </authorgroup>
+
+    <copyright>
+      <year>2007</year>
+      <year>2008</year>
+      <holder>Johannes Berg</holder>
+    </copyright>
+
+    <legalnotice>
+      <para>
+        This documentation is free software; you can redistribute
+        it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
+        License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+        This documentation is distributed in the hope that it will be
+        useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
+        warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
+        See the GNU General Public License for more details.
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+        You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
+        License along with this documentation; if not, write to the Free
+        Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
+        MA 02111-1307 USA
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+        For more details see the file COPYING in the source
+        distribution of Linux.
+      </para>
+    </legalnotice>
+
+    <abstract>
+!Pinclude/net/mac80211.h Introduction
+!Pinclude/net/mac80211.h Warning
+    </abstract>
+  </bookinfo>
+
+  <toc></toc>
+
+<!--
+Generally, this document shall be ordered by increasing complexity.
+It is important to note that readers should be able to read only
+the first few sections to get a working driver and only advanced
+usage should require reading the full document.
+-->
+
+  <part>
+    <title>The basic mac80211 driver interface</title>
+    <partintro>
+      <para>
+        You should read and understand the information contained
+        within this part of the book while implementing a driver.
+        In some chapters, advanced usage is noted, that may be
+        skipped at first.
+      </para>
+      <para>
+        This part of the book only covers station and monitor mode
+        functionality, additional information required to implement
+        the other modes is covered in the second part of the book.
+      </para>
+    </partintro>
+
+    <chapter id="basics">
+      <title>Basic hardware handling</title>
+      <para>TBD</para>
+      <para>
+        This chapter shall contain information on getting a hw
+        struct allocated and registered with mac80211.
+      </para>
+      <para>
+        Since it is required to allocate rates/modes before registering
+        a hw struct, this chapter shall also contain information on setting
+        up the rate/mode structs.
+      </para>
+      <para>
+        Additionally, some discussion about the callbacks and
+        the general programming model should be in here, including
+        the definition of ieee80211_ops which will be referred to
+        a lot.
+      </para>
+      <para>
+        Finally, a discussion of hardware capabilities should be done
+        with references to other parts of the book.
+      </para>
+<!-- intentionally multiple !F lines to get proper order -->
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_hw
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_hw_flags
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h SET_IEEE80211_DEV
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h SET_IEEE80211_PERM_ADDR
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_ops
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_alloc_hw
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_register_hw
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_get_tx_led_name
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_get_rx_led_name
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_get_assoc_led_name
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_get_radio_led_name
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_unregister_hw
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_free_hw
+    </chapter>
+
+    <chapter id="phy-handling">
+      <title>PHY configuration</title>
+      <para>TBD</para>
+      <para>
+        This chapter should describe PHY handling including
+        start/stop callbacks and the various structures used.
+      </para>
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_conf
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_conf_flags
+    </chapter>
+
+    <chapter id="iface-handling">
+      <title>Virtual interfaces</title>
+      <para>TBD</para>
+      <para>
+        This chapter should describe virtual interface basics
+        that are relevant to the driver (VLANs, MGMT etc are not.)
+        It should explain the use of the add_iface/remove_iface
+        callbacks as well as the interface configuration callbacks.
+      </para>
+      <para>Things related to AP mode should be discussed there.</para>
+      <para>
+        Things related to supporting multiple interfaces should be
+        in the appropriate chapter, a BIG FAT note should be here about
+        this though and the recommendation to allow only a single
+        interface in STA mode at first!
+      </para>
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_if_types
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_if_init_conf
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_if_conf
+    </chapter>
+
+    <chapter id="rx-tx">
+      <title>Receive and transmit processing</title>
+      <sect1>
+        <title>what should be here</title>
+        <para>TBD</para>
+        <para>
+          This should describe the receive and transmit
+          paths in mac80211/the drivers as well as
+          transmit status handling.
+        </para>
+      </sect1>
+      <sect1>
+        <title>Frame format</title>
+!Pinclude/net/mac80211.h Frame format
+      </sect1>
+      <sect1>
+        <title>Alignment issues</title>
+        <para>TBD</para>
+      </sect1>
+      <sect1>
+        <title>Calling into mac80211 from interrupts</title>
+!Pinclude/net/mac80211.h Calling mac80211 from interrupts
+      </sect1>
+      <sect1>
+        <title>functions/definitions</title>
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_rx_status
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h mac80211_rx_flags
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_tx_control
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_tx_status_flags
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_rx
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_rx_irqsafe
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_tx_status
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_tx_status_irqsafe
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_rts_get
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_rts_duration
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_ctstoself_get
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_ctstoself_duration
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_generic_frame_duration
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_get_hdrlen_from_skb
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_get_hdrlen
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_wake_queue
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_stop_queue
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_start_queues
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_stop_queues
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_wake_queues
+      </sect1>
+    </chapter>
+
+    <chapter id="filters">
+      <title>Frame filtering</title>
+!Pinclude/net/mac80211.h Frame filtering
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_filter_flags
+    </chapter>
+  </part>
+
+  <part id="advanced">
+    <title>Advanced driver interface</title>
+    <partintro>
+      <para>
+       Information contained within this part of the book is
+       of interest only for advanced interaction of mac80211
+       with drivers to exploit more hardware capabilities and
+       improve performance.
+      </para>
+    </partintro>
+
+    <chapter id="hardware-crypto-offload">
+      <title>Hardware crypto acceleration</title>
+!Pinclude/net/mac80211.h Hardware crypto acceleration
+<!-- intentionally multiple !F lines to get proper order -->
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h set_key_cmd
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_key_conf
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_key_alg
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_key_flags
+    </chapter>
+
+    <chapter id="qos">
+      <title>Multiple queues and QoS support</title>
+      <para>TBD</para>
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_tx_queue_params
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_tx_queue_stats_data
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_tx_queue
+    </chapter>
+
+    <chapter id="AP">
+      <title>Access point mode support</title>
+      <para>TBD</para>
+      <para>Some parts of the if_conf should be discussed here instead</para>
+      <para>
+        Insert notes about VLAN interfaces with hw crypto here or
+        in the hw crypto chapter.
+      </para>
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_get_buffered_bc
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_beacon_get
+    </chapter>
+
+    <chapter id="multi-iface">
+      <title>Supporting multiple virtual interfaces</title>
+      <para>TBD</para>
+      <para>
+        Note: WDS with identical MAC address should almost always be OK
+      </para>
+      <para>
+        Insert notes about having multiple virtual interfaces with
+        different MAC addresses here, note which configurations are
+        supported by mac80211, add notes about supporting hw crypto
+        with it.
+      </para>
+    </chapter>
+
+    <chapter id="hardware-scan-offload">
+      <title>Hardware scan offload</title>
+      <para>TBD</para>
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_scan_completed
+    </chapter>
+  </part>
+
+  <part id="rate-control">
+    <title>Rate control interface</title>
+    <partintro>
+      <para>TBD</para>
+      <para>
+       This part of the book describes the rate control algorithm
+       interface and how it relates to mac80211 and drivers.
+      </para>
+    </partintro>
+    <chapter id="dummy">
+      <title>dummy chapter</title>
+      <para>TBD</para>
+    </chapter>
+  </part>
+
+  <part id="internal">
+    <title>Internals</title>
+    <partintro>
+      <para>TBD</para>
+      <para>
+       This part of the book describes mac80211 internals.
+      </para>
+    </partintro>
+
+    <chapter id="key-handling">
+      <title>Key handling</title>
+      <sect1>
+        <title>Key handling basics</title>
+!Pnet/mac80211/key.c Key handling basics
+      </sect1>
+      <sect1>
+        <title>MORE TBD</title>
+        <para>TBD</para>
+      </sect1>
+    </chapter>
+
+    <chapter id="rx-processing">
+      <title>Receive processing</title>
+      <para>TBD</para>
+    </chapter>
+
+    <chapter id="tx-processing">
+      <title>Transmit processing</title>
+      <para>TBD</para>
+    </chapter>
+
+    <chapter id="sta-info">
+      <title>Station info handling</title>
+      <sect1>
+        <title>Programming information</title>
+!Fnet/mac80211/sta_info.h sta_info
+!Fnet/mac80211/sta_info.h ieee80211_sta_info_flags
+      </sect1>
+      <sect1>
+        <title>STA information lifetime rules</title>
+!Pnet/mac80211/sta_info.c STA information lifetime rules
+      </sect1>
+    </chapter>
+
+    <chapter id="synchronisation">
+      <title>Synchronisation</title>
+      <para>TBD</para>
+      <para>Locking, lots of RCU</para>
+    </chapter>
+  </part>
+</book>