From: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Roaming problems
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:45:41 +0200
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	Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>,
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> I'm not disputing that as a reasonable approach.  But FWIW for
> two years we've been saying it is OK for drivers to use
> setting SSID as the only trigger for association.  Is that not
> your understanding?

I have a patch for better-reassociation-for-libertas, where both 
SIWESSID or SIWAP trigger an re-association --- but with a delay 
of some hundred milliseconds. Works great with with iwconfig and 
wpa_supplicant.

(However, I won't share this patch yet because it is completely 
AdHoc-agnostic).