On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 08:59:25AM +0200, Kalle Valo wrote: > "John W. Linville" <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Will applications actually use it? > > The idea is that wpa_supplicant will listen to these events, and will > enable or disable backround scan (ie. scanning for new APs when > associated) based on information received from the events. When the > connection to the AP is good enough, it can disable background scan > which makes it possible to save power and also get rid of latency > introduced by the background scan. > > I haven't seen any implementation for wpa_supplicant yet, but we have > talked about that few times during the last two years. If you can make wpa_supplicant scan less then I am sold! :-) John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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
