Pruning the active AP

[Markus Becker <mab comnets uni-bremen de>]

Hello,

I was checking how NM reacts, when an AP, that we are connected to,
dies or is getting out of range. I was expecting NM to notice that and 
remove the current AP from the list of available APs. However, NM keeps 
the AP in its list. I think this is because of this in nm-device-wifi.c:

/* Don't ever prune the AP we're currently associated with */
if (cur_ap_path && !strcmp (cur_ap_path, nm_ap_get_dbus_path (ap)))
  keep = TRUE;

What was the reasoning behind keeping the AP we're connected to, when it 
is not in the scanning list anymore? Are some cards not reporting the AP 
we are connected to in the scanning list or why?

Markus

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| Communication Networks
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| TZI - Center for Computing Technologies
| University Bremen
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