Re: [PATCH] ipw2200: Change driver default policies

[Tim Gardner <timg@tpi.com>]

Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 10:25 -0600, Tim Gardner wrote:
> 
>>>> 3) roaming=0 - do not automatically roam to another AP with the same SSID.
>>> Not really sure why this should be changed?  Were there reported issues
>>> with this behavior?
>>>
>> Its been my expereince that wireless drivers rarely make the correct
>> decision about when or where to roam. It also seems like a policy
>> decision that ought to be made elsewhere.
>>
>> Frankly, I'm not that concerned about the roaming option. The default
>> for 'associate' was the one I _really_ wanted changed. I'll submit a v2
>> patch with just that change.
> 
> Would that also turn off the spectrum-polluting continuous scanning
> these cards do? :)
> 
> johannes

I've always thought that background scanning was a bad idea, especially
when coupled with active probing. Its not practical to switch channels
for a reasonable dwell time without having some impact on connectivity.

rtg
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