On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2010-11-19 10:55 PM, Felix Fietkau wrote: >> Waiting for 500 ms after sending a probe request seems a bit excessive, >> especially when doing 5 attempts. If the connection is bad enough to make >> multiple requests time out, then user space should try to quickly find a >> new AP. This might improve fail over roaming to a small extent but as per the commit id d1c5091f23fed5195271e2849f89017d3a126521 it was mentioned this might affect robustness against 'slow AP's' > Hmm, don't merge this patch yet, it can cause background scans to > trigger reconnects. > I am not sure how this affects background scan.bgscan will be enabled even before the beacon loss and it is based on RSSI(please correct me if I am wrong). > - Felix > -- > 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 > -- 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
