On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 18:35 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > 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? :) No, that would be a separate patch to disable the background scanning behavior or at least tone it down to once every few seconds or something. Dan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
