From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Cc: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCHv3 0/2] mac80211: cfg80211: Roam trigger support
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:56:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100319145636.GB9552@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87aau4dcfm.fsf@purkki.valot.fi>
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 08:59:25AM +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
> "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> 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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-19 15:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-17 13:01 [RFC PATCHv3 0/2] mac80211: cfg80211: Roam trigger support Juuso Oikarinen
2010-03-17 13:01 ` [RFC PATCHv3 1/2] cfg80211: Add connection quality monitoring support to nl80211 Juuso Oikarinen
2010-03-17 16:17 ` Johannes Berg
2010-03-18 5:19 ` Juuso Oikarinen
2010-03-18 16:10 ` Johannes Berg
2010-03-19 4:43 ` Juuso Oikarinen
2010-03-19 6:39 ` Kalle Valo
2010-03-17 13:01 ` [RFC PATCHv3 2/2] mac80211: Add support for connection quality monitoring Juuso Oikarinen
2010-03-17 16:19 ` Johannes Berg
2010-03-18 5:21 ` Juuso Oikarinen
2010-03-17 16:20 ` Johannes Berg
2010-03-18 5:22 ` Juuso Oikarinen
2010-03-17 16:21 ` Johannes Berg
2010-03-17 13:22 ` [RFC PATCHv3 0/2] mac80211: cfg80211: Roam trigger support John W. Linville
2010-03-17 13:56 ` Juuso Oikarinen
2010-03-19 6:59 ` Kalle Valo
2010-03-19 14:56 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2010-03-20 0:15 ` Jouni Malinen
2010-03-20 22:34 ` Kalle Valo
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