Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipw2200: Change driver default policies
From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: timg@tpi.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:47:07 -0400
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On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 18:35 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 10:25 -0600, Tim Gardner wrote:
> 
> > >> 3) roaming=0 - do not automatically roam to another AP with the same SSID.
> > > 
> > > Not really sure why this should be changed?  Were there reported issues
> > > with this behavior?
> > > 
> > 
> > Its been my expereince that wireless drivers rarely make the correct
> > decision about when or where to roam. It also seems like a policy
> > decision that ought to be made elsewhere.
> > 
> > Frankly, I'm not that concerned about the roaming option. The default
> > for 'associate' was the one I _really_ wanted changed. I'll submit a v2
> > patch with just that change.
> 
> Would that also turn off the spectrum-polluting continuous scanning
> these cards do? :)

No, that would be a separate patch to disable the background scanning
behavior or at least tone it down to once every few seconds or
something.

Dan