[PATCH] Avoid unnecessary triggering of rescans

Helmut Schaa hschaa
Fri Mar 7 00:05:23 PST 2008


Am Freitag, 7. M?rz 2008 08:04:20 schrieb Jouni Malinen:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 05:53:52PM +0100, Helmut Schaa wrote:
> > Perhaps it would be even better to do nothing when scan-results come in
> > and wpa_supplicant is not in state WPA_SCANNING.
>
> The goal in the current design is to allow changing the APs based on
> background scans if a better AP becomes available. As such, I do not
> want to change this part of the design.

Ok, thanks for the info :)

But in some situations that may result in unexpected switching between two APs 
all the time (if you sit in the middle of two APs and e.g. NetworkManager 
triggering a scan every two minutes), right?

Helmut



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