Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 09:20 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote: >> Balaji Ravindran <b@xxxxxxx> writes: >> >> > Is anyone working on this feature enhancement(i mean wireless roaming)? >> > I saw it on the to-do list, and that Mircea had proposed it for GSoC. I >> > thought i shall dig into it, but just wanted to know if anyone's >> > already being involved and actively working on it. >> >> Nobody is currently working on it AFAIK. We are planning to talk about >> roaming at Berlin next week and I will have a brief overview to start >> the dicussion, but that's about it. > > Yeah, I don't think anybody is working on it. That's my understanding as well. > FWIW, what we need in the kernel/drivers is, I think > > 1) signals for significant signal change (offloaded to firmware for > beacons while no traffic is flowing) I agree. Also I think we need to have an user space interface to configure the threshold value. > 2) a way of telling userspace whether or not it has to handle > roaming, now that new cards are showing up (iwm) that can handle it > themselves What about older fullmac cards, do they support roaming in hardware? > and probably some more. I don't suppose you will be in Berlin, but it > would probably be helpful for you to wait for that discussion to have > taken place before working on it, because then we'll have at least a > plan of where we want to see this go. I agree. I'm planning to write a small report of our roaming discussion. Maybe we can implement this finally :) -- Kalle Valo -- 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
