Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] mac80211: cfg80211: Roam trigger support
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	luciano.coelho@nokia.com
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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:46:07 -0700
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On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 09:02 +0200, Juuso Oikarinen wrote:
> To implement good performance WLAN roaming, it is not sufficient to start
> scanning for other available AP's only after the currently serving association
> is lost.
> 
> The entity controlling the roaming will need to get indication of a
> deteriorating WLAN connection in order to start preparing for roaming already
> before the serving association is lost. This way, it can roam to a better AP
> perhaps even before the serving association becomes too bad in quality.
> 
> These patches propose an implementation facilitating this using a simple RSSI
> threshold and hysteresis approach.

So this is merged, anyone want to implement it in mac80211 so we can
start playing with it? I won't get around to it for quite a while.

johannes