From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
To: Sabrina Schulte <sabrina.schulte@rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: decision for an access point
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:15:16 +0200
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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On Thursday 20 September 2012 13:53:59 Sabrina Schulte wrote:
> I do not know if this is the right mailing list to ask. I am tying to 
> modify the association process in a carl9170 driver. I am looking for 
> the place, where the decision for a certain access point is done. Does 
> anyone know, where this decision or the sorting of a list of access 
> points is done?
The decision is made by userspace (the driver is not involved).
In almost all cases this will be done by some sort of 
"wpa_supplicant" (either directly, or through networkmanager, wicd, ...).

In wpa_supplicant itself, the network is usually picked from a 
priority list (see function "wpa_supplicant_pick_network" in
wpa_supplicant/events.c)

Regards,
	Chr