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 _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
