[PATCH] Add wpa_cli command to show roaming candidates

Jouni Malinen j
Thu Nov 24 11:43:39 PST 2011


On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 07:49:01PM +0300, Gery Kahn wrote:
> The wpa_supplicant collects APs for roaming during background scanning.
> The patch provides new cli command to get the list of roaming
> candidates by selected APs from common wpa_supplicant list. The selection rules
> are AP with the same SSID, AP with the same security type as connected netwrok
> and not connected AP.

What would this be used for? The BSS table is already available and if
some external program wants to see roaming candidates, it can do this..
Why would wpa_supplicant need to have any extra code to handle this?

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