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[This file is currently not baked and does not claim to represent
consensus.]

This file describes the current organization of the GNU Radio source
tree.  It is intended to be both descriptive and normative.

The big issues are:

1) Should we separate by "code needed to implement protocol/modulation
foo", or related blocks. to (that are therefore not so likely to be
used together).

2) How do m-blocks impact organization?  If m-blocks are in a separate
module, which seems reasonable, then do we have most modules depend on
m-blocks rather than just core, or do we have two versions of blocks -
the classic continuous block and the m-block wrapped block?  If
m-blocks become the main path, what will be less awkward?

3) Because some (ADROIT at BBN) have proposed to implement MACs in
click instead of GNU Radio, should we have a clean separation of
MAC/PHY within GNU Radio, to facilitate using MACs implemented in
various places?


The immediate question is how to integrate the 802.11 implementation
done by BBN, available at:

  http://acert.ir.bbn.com/viewvc/adroitgrdevel/adroitgrdevel/gr-bbn/

This contains blocks at various places in the stack, and gdt believs
that putting them in an 802.11 module will lead to less reuse and less
of a tendency to generalize.

[need pointers to existing documentation of big picture and what's where]