From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Cathy Luo <cluo@marvell.com>,
Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mwifiex: increase number of probes for specific SSID scans
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 17:09:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1429024166.3019.17.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1429022956-12016-1-git-send-email-akarwar@marvell.com> (sfid-20150414_164959_065629_FE6FF99B)
On Tue, 2015-04-14 at 07:49 -0700, Amitkumar Karwar wrote:
> It's been observed that device sometimes fails to find AP
> configured in hidden SSID in busy environment. We will increase
> number of probes for specific SSID scans for getting better results.
I question the value of making the "busy environment" even more busy by
sending a lot of probe requests at low rates ...
Scans are never really guaranteed to be perfect and complete anyway.
This is clearly your choice, but given, among other things, the broader
industry direction of moving away from active scanning this seems like a
bit short-sighted thing to do.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-14 15:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-14 14:49 [PATCH] mwifiex: increase number of probes for specific SSID scans Amitkumar Karwar
2015-04-14 15:09 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2015-04-15 7:30 ` Amitkumar Karwar
2015-04-14 20:37 ` James Cameron
2015-04-15 9:01 ` Amitkumar Karwar
2015-04-15 11:37 ` James Cameron
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