Re: Reminder: outstanding roaming patches still not merged

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On Thu, 2020-02-13 at 00:37 +0300, Pavel Nikulin wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> 
> I am aware of that, I want to have a global switch

I would say that's unlikely to happen since there's already a mechanism
to disable roaming on a per-network basis (bssid) and adding a switch
like this increases code maintenance costs going forward for what is
probably a less-used option. But the decision is up to Jouni :)

Dan

> On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 6:14 PM Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2020-02-11 at 15:41 +0300, Pavel Nikulin wrote:
> > > The last suggestion, can we make a config file option, or a dbus
> > > prop
> > > to disable the roaming completely?
> > 
> > This is already implemented by setting the "bssid" property of the
> > network block to the AP you'd like to talk to.
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
> > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 5:56 AM Jouni Malinen <j@xxxxx> wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 05:23:48AM +0300, Pavel Nikulin wrote:
> > > > > I want to remind for the fourth time that patches aimed at
> > > > > improving
> > > > > the appalling roaming behaviour were left without feedback,
> > > > > and a
> > > > > roadman for merge:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > [PATCH 4/5] wpa_supplicant: fix the constant roaming
> > > > > > problem
> > > > > 
> > > > > Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 7:49
> > > > 
> > > > That was already applied:
> > > > commit 7e7b23e2290b1c0731f0ae04200ddef033334abb
> > > > 
> > > > > > [PATCH] supplicant: Tune auto-roaming based on scan
> > > > > > results,
> > > > > > allow configuring thresholds.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Fri, 29 Mar 2019 11:31
> > > > 
> > > > And feedback for that was provided with reasoning why the
> > > > proposed
> > > > parameters should not be added.
> > > > 
> > > > > And possible one more I can't remember now.
> > > > 
> > > > You'd need to identify the exact patch if you think there is
> > > > still
> > > > something pending.. I went through all the patches related to
> > > > roaming
> > > > early January and I don't think any pending items remaining.
> > > > 
> > > > --
> > > > Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id
> > > > EFC895FA
> > > 
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