Return-path: Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.154]:48652 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750936AbZFVOve (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:51:34 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id d23so574610fga.17 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:51:36 -0700 (PDT) To: Dan Williams Cc: Johannes Berg , Balaji Ravindran , "linux-wireless\@vger.kernel.org" , Mircea Gherzan Subject: Re: Proposal enquiry for Wireless Roaming feature enhancement References: <4A38672F.9090904@w1an.in> <87hbyfmlds.fsf@litku.valot.fi> <1245231411.20613.3.camel@johannes.local> <87bpol90z5.fsf@litku.valot.fi> <1245681796.4338.24.camel@dhcp-100-3-98.bos.redhat.com> From: Kalle Valo Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:51:32 +0300 In-Reply-To: <1245681796.4338.24.camel@dhcp-100-3-98.bos.redhat.com> (Dan Williams's message of "Mon\, 22 Jun 2009 10\:43\:16 -0400") Message-ID: <87k534nwy3.fsf@litku.valot.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Dan Williams writes: >> > 2) a way of telling userspace whether or not it has to handle >> > roaming, now that new cards are showing up (iwm) that can handle it >> > themselves >> >> What about older fullmac cards, do they support roaming in hardware? > > Yes. airo at least, and I think also atmel, orinoco, but not Libertas. > Most of the fullmac cards do handle roaming between BSSIDs in the same > SSID transparently. Libertas on the other hand pushes that control to > the driver. Can you tell anything about the configuration parameters available? For example, can the driver configure an rssi threshold for enabling background scanning[1]? [1] I'm sure there are N+1 different names for this -- Kalle Valo