[PATCH] wpa_supplicant: Implement fast-associate on SelectNetwork

[Jouni Malinen]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 06:28:09PM -0800, Paul Stewart wrote:
> If scan results are available when we perform a SelectNetwork, use
> them to make an associate decision.  This can save an entire scan
> interval-worth of time in situations where something external to
> wpa_supplicant (like a connection manager) has just previously
> requested a scan before calling SelectNetwork.

interworking_reconnect() does this conditionally on how old the previous
scan results are and by re-using the
wpas_select_network_from_last_scan() function. Is there reason to have
SelectNetwork behave differently? In other words, could this new
wpa_supplicant_fast_associate() be replaced with a call to the existing
wpas_select_network_from_last_scan()? I would also consider adding some
time limit based on wpa_s->last_scan. Five seconds may be a bit too
short for this, but using three minutes old results does not sound that
good either.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA