Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] mac80211 suspend/resume

[Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>]

Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> writes:

> On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 09:55 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> writes:
>> 
>> > 1) A 'frequency' config item that works in infrastructure mode too,
>> > ignoring any AP not matching that frequency
>> 
>> Just out of curiosity, why this feature is needed? I can understand
>> hard-coding bssid, but I don't understand the use for hard-coding the
>> frequency.
>
> If the user wishes to lock the connection to a specific frequency,
> irregardless of other values.

I guessed that part :) But I wanted to ask why would user want to do
this? I don't see any benefits from that.

> Maybe you're right and we don't really care about it, but one other
> thing that would be nice is a "band" argument for a network block to
> differentiate A vs. B/G APs that might have the same SSID and
> security settings, but where the user only wants to use the A-side
> for example.

This would be nice to have, most probably I would immediately disable
A band just to get faster scanning. I don't use 802.11a anywhere, for
me it's useless.

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Kalle Valo