On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 11:13:05PM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: > Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > bgscan="simple:30:-45:300" > .. > > No Linux distributions today uses this other than ChromeOS, but > > they should all change to use it. > > Maybe wpa_supplicant should be changed to use it by default? It probably should at some point. I did not want to do it during early development part of bgscan, but it could now be a reasonable change in the current development branch (obviously only if the build is configured to include bgscan). Though, that signal level value is a bit hardware specific, so -45 may not be ideal for everything. In addition, the bgscan learn module could be better for many networks. Though, there is a drawback involved with this, too. In case of a networks with only a single AP, this would be adding unnecessary background scanning every 30 or 300 seconds based on signal strength. As such, enabling the functionality by default is a bit problematic if there is no mechanism for the user to disable it. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA -- 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
