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Re: [PATCH] ipw2200: Change driver default policies

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On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 10:25 -0600, Tim Gardner wrote:

> >> 3) roaming=0 - do not automatically roam to another AP with the same SSID.
> > 
> > Not really sure why this should be changed?  Were there reported issues
> > with this behavior?
> > 
> 
> Its been my expereince that wireless drivers rarely make the correct
> decision about when or where to roam. It also seems like a policy
> decision that ought to be made elsewhere.
> 
> Frankly, I'm not that concerned about the roaming option. The default
> for 'associate' was the one I _really_ wanted changed. I'll submit a v2
> patch with just that change.

Would that also turn off the spectrum-polluting continuous scanning
these cards do? :)

johannes

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