Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:34339 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753099AbZFQJhY (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:37:24 -0400 Subject: Re: Proposal enquiry for Wireless Roaming feature enhancement From: Johannes Berg To: Kalle Valo Cc: Balaji Ravindran , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , Mircea Gherzan In-Reply-To: <87hbyfmlds.fsf@litku.valot.fi> References: <4A38672F.9090904@w1an.in> <87hbyfmlds.fsf@litku.valot.fi> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-LnMeGNVP1/K2FkCv8X/A" Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:36:51 +0200 Message-Id: <1245231411.20613.3.camel@johannes.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-LnMeGNVP1/K2FkCv8X/A Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 09:20 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote: > Balaji Ravindran writes: >=20 > > Is anyone working on this feature enhancement(i mean wireless roaming)? > > I saw it on the to-do list, and that Mircea had proposed it for GSoC. I > > thought i shall dig into it, but just wanted to know if anyone's > > already being involved and actively working on it. >=20 > Nobody is currently working on it AFAIK. We are planning to talk about > roaming at Berlin next week and I will have a brief overview to start > the dicussion, but that's about it. Yeah, I don't think anybody is working on it. FWIW, what we need in the kernel/drivers is, I think 1) signals for significant signal change (offloaded to firmware for beacons while no traffic is flowing) 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 and probably some more. I don't suppose you will be in Berlin, but it would probably be helpful for you to wait for that discussion to have taken place before working on it, because then we'll have at least a plan of where we want to see this go. johannes --=-LnMeGNVP1/K2FkCv8X/A Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAABAgAGBQJKOLksAAoJEODzc/N7+Qma4kAQAIJ2jBz48LmV4YLps4rrcoxx p53Vdbxc6I46dfOJMLTUXNAgrYkkH7DExqj2+4tE975ZtNSS6jUeDHd0TzZScoKP 4oNVE3diRsOQiHh9bOL9Exyb3GB/Rkz/6WIbAMZAGfzxqNjoyV3rCbvdWclX6V31 k25I6jWpaLlNCWfWzugXuvTqKGd51FZzjujp7fJ9MZ5z9HVlVm385ZL8bdKggTKX hTjbNUpl8ssuyq/AusQmfBi8BwldBpWI8pKEwf3RzpXuV2y8KrJSqI4bxFbyEBoB EfIM1EVkkJOKTmAsDzmdJdE1fWSeJ32NPJkWzoed3fWOZzBOto2972nIfqtj2AiT 5BEbV2ju5LshX3Vv2wqHXzIJhZand5bGXjARQlMIHIVutul+5FLN7LYESJ/nceUv D7tOT1F5FJEyTKqhw+rUSQxr/pqbQrMekmWnopMDzTXe9LkJvoUyuE2v1UInm5Il ld6VZjrZJAVTMrJkEzmEG4GVzFi8QdkNmeI/lINKzN0kj6mQ14/7gfxB9YLbjY9i uUiRceVOX/RFwuMnF2Sq48WY+cgCCL4TRwXH1elW9ooYnr3mISHR74BV3RJxyck/ W+M1vLrvNNbk23HWs/7MxCxvI+mKoVQsslDRID3WXoTAYuWiouHM2JsdDEMaOjbU +kSFJN2aWll+wjar0fi4 =z/b5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-LnMeGNVP1/K2FkCv8X/A--