[PATCH] Avoid unnecessary triggering of rescans

[Dan Williams]

On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 18:00 +0100, Helmut Schaa wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 27. Februar 2008 17:26:15 schrieb Dan Williams:
> > > > Does the driver include the BSS in scan results? I would hope that at
> > > > least the BSSID is included even if the network is hidden (if not, the
> > > > driver should be fixed..).
> > >
> > > The currently associated AP is not in the scan results at all :(
> > > So I guess the driver needs a fix.
> >
> > Yeah, your driver sucks and needs fixing :)  If the driver/card can't
> > handle specific SSID scans through SIOCSIWSCAN and the resulting probe
> > responses correctly, there's something wrong in the driver that you need
> > to fix.  Your driver should work correctly with ap_scan=1 and
> > scan_ssid=1.
> 
> Scanning for a specific ESSID works just fine. It's only the currently 
> associated AP which is missing.

Sounds like the driver needs a clue; if the driver isn't even returning
the currently associated BSS in the scan results that's pretty wrong.
However, not many drivers currently do this explicitly.

I'd argue that the supplicant really isn't at fault here; but the driver
should be doing better.  Are you using scan_ssid=1 and ap_scan=1, or
ap_scan=2 here?  If you're using ap_scan=1/scan_ssid=1, then there's
really no excuse for the driver's behavior.  If you're using ap_scan=2,
and the driver supports SSID scans, try using ap_scan=1/scan_ssid=1.

Dan