Re: [PATCH] iwlwifi: remove implicit direct scan

["Tomas Winkler" <tomasw@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:59 AM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 23:54 +0200, Tomas Winkler wrote:
>
>> >> Am I missing something? This seems very strange! What specifies that
>> >> when an SSID is set on an interface the user wants to scan for that one?
>> >> The interface might just have been associated previously to that SSID,
>> >> now disassociated and network manager is asking for a scan to get
>> >> information about networks to let the user select a new one.
>> >
>> > NACK, this is a heuristic that helps connection to configured SSID. It
>> > doesn't mean that other ssid won't be scanned.
>> > This code might be revised again when multiple SSID scan will be implemented
>> > Tomas
>> >
>> Okay I've only now have  seen the real reason for this. The SSID
>> removal from the driver API. It's much better argument for removing
>> this code anyway have to think how this will be substituted.
>
> :)
> Unless somebody can come up with a good argument for requiring the SSID?
> I don't see it being necessary the way beaconing and everything is
> designed in mac80211 now, and this leaves only the BSSID in the
> interface config which I'll move to BSS config and then remove the
> interface config thing completely.
>
> Also, doesn't ieee80211_sta_config_auth already do exactly this
> heuristic thing? If it doesn't know about the BSS it'll initiate a scan
> for the SSID it's looking for?

Yep, you are right.
Tomas
>
> johannes
>