Re: Reminder: outstanding roaming patches still not merged

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 09:19:38AM -0600, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-02-13 at 00:37 +0300, Pavel Nikulin wrote:
> > I am aware of that, I want to have a global switch
> 
> I would say that's unlikely to happen since there's already a mechanism
> to disable roaming on a per-network basis (bssid) and adding a switch
> like this increases code maintenance costs going forward for what is
> probably a less-used option. But the decision is up to Jouni :)

There would need to be a patch to consider since I don't know what this
no-roaming switch would do. It should be noted that unless asked to do
otherwise, wpa_supplicant will not actually be trying to find a new AP
to roam to based on signal strength.. That will happen only if bgscan is
configured or if something external triggers a scan and the new scan
result shows a significantly better AP. If neither of those occur,
wpa_supplicant will allow the connection to remain with the current AP
until the local driver indicates there was a disconnection.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA