[PATCH 10/16] WNM: Use standard BSS selection and enable abridged bit handling

[Jouni Malinen]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 01:51:51PM +0200, benjamin at sipsolutions.net wrote:
> Most of the logic to reject BSSs during transition has been moved into
> wnm_is_bss_excluded. In addition to this, since commit 67bf89f55442
> ("WNM: Choose the best available BSS, not just the first one") we will
> simply choose the BSS with the best throughput.
> 
> Overall, this matches the behaviour that the supplicant will use anyway
> in wpa_supplicant_select_bss. The only bigger difference is that using
> this will check all known BSSs instead of only the ones in the candidate
> list. This means that with this change the abridged bit is handled
> according to spec.
> 
> Another slight change is that this drops the logic to reject candidates
> with a very low signal level. This does not seem to very relevant
> anymore as we prefere stronger BSSs to begin with.

This does not apply without patch 8/16 which has open questions.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA