Re: [review] dcbw/wifi-scan: delegate connected scanning to wpa_supplicant

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2017-08-01 at 20:05 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Now that all of the major UI clients (GNOME Shell, KDE, nm-applet)
> have
> been updated to request scans when appropriate, stop NM from doing
> periodic scans while connected, preferring instead to let the
> supplicant decide when to scan based on signal strength thresholds. 
> This branch preserves the behavior of not scanning at all when the
> connection is locked to a single BSSID (via not sending "bgscan" to
> the
> supplicant config, and preventing all periodic scans when connected).
>
> Explicitly requested scans are of course not prevented when
> connected.
>
> Yeah, nm-applet should probably update itself asynchronously, like
> the
> OS X Airport menu, but at least it requests scans since 1.8 so it'll
> be
> updated the next time the menu is shown.
>
> nm-applet has requested scans since 1.8, GNOME Shell's applet has
> requested scans since 3.23, and KDE's plasma-nm has requested scans
> since 5.8.95.  All these UIs were updated mid-April 2017.

Squashed, rebased, repushed; another cleanup added.  more details here:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=766482#c20

Dan