[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#859441: Bug#859441: wpasupplicant: apply patches to favour througput estimate over snr/strength

[Andrew Shadura]

On 03/04/17 16:47, Jan De Luyck wrote:
> Package: wpasupplicant
> Version: 2:2.4-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> There are patches available upstream that change the way wpasupplicant
> picks the network to connect to, in case you have both 5ghz and 2.4ghz
> networks with the same SSID. It'll check throughput, instead of just
> plain SNR/signal strength.
> 
> The following patches on top of wpasupplicant should make this work:
> 
> http://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/commit/?id=b4d56efb1a237e4ed91de97b1615747082de7fd3
> http://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/commit/?id=14204148781cf8e64827eae12dffacc869586073
> 
> Please consider including these.

Ivo, what would you say on this? Is this important enough to have it in
stretch?

Jan, as much as I would like to include them, I've been running
wpa-supplicant without those on a dual-band AP for quite some time, and
it was, well, bearable, so I'm not sure whether we need this on not.

OTOH the patch is about three lines long, modifying two thresholds, so
it shouldn't be a big deal to have.

-- 
Cheers,
  Andrew

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