From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f21.google.com ([209.85.218.21]:57981 "EHLO mail-bw0-f21.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753040AbZAIHzH (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 02:55:07 -0500 Received: by bwz14 with SMTP id 14so28537356bwz.13 for ; Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:55:05 -0800 (PST) To: Dan Williams Cc: Marcel Holtmann , Bob Copeland , Johannes Berg , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, mabbaswireless@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] mac80211 suspend/resume References: <1229313039-5544-1-git-send-email-me@bobcopeland.com> <1229336057.4471.9.camel@johannes.berg> <1229354532.12163.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20081217174244.M36761@bobcopeland.com> <1230064216.31228.46.camel@johannes> <20081224054951.GA32398@hash.localnet> <1230102989.16960.14.camel@californication> <1231260306.14565.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1231261937.5246.16.camel@californication> <1231267979.14565.34.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1231270575.14901.6.camel@californication> <1231432778.21643.40.camel@localhost.localdomain> From: Kalle Valo Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:55:02 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1231432778.21643.40.camel@localhost.localdomain> (Dan Williams's message of "Thu\, 08 Jan 2009 11\:39\:38 -0500") Message-ID: <87skns29t5.fsf@litku.valot.fi> (sfid-20090109_085514_380955_47BFFE05) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Dan Williams writes: >> Having the suspend scripts to tell NM to disconnect is just not a good >> solution and especially in the embedded world this is a broken design >> concept. > > Right; the missing piece is pushing the necessary roaming support down > to the supplicant and letting it make the decisions about what to > connect to. There's a few things that I need from the supplicant before > I can simply push the entire config set down from NM and let it go wild: > > 1) A 'frequency' config item that works in infrastructure mode too, > ignoring any AP not matching that frequency Just out of curiosity, why this feature is needed? I can understand hard-coding bssid, but I don't understand the use for hard-coding the frequency. -- Kalle Valo