[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#622821: wpasupplicant: reassociates after disconnect

[Andrew Pimlott]

Excerpts from Kel Modderman's message of Fri Apr 15 04:14:16 -0700 2011:
> On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 07:36:00 AM Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> >   * After a disconnected event, attempt to reassociate to a network
> >     when using wpa-roam.
> > 
> > If I'm understanding this correctly, I don't see the sense in this.
> 
> I tend to agree with you, and what's more I cannot recall what information or
> events led to the decision to introduce this behaviour. Would have to dig deep
> through the history...
> 
> Would you be able to propose in patch form, the changes you would like?

The original change is svn r1537, but it doesn't tell us why.  I guess
I'm suggesting to revert the change to debian/ifupdown/wpa_action in
that commit:

Index: debian/ifupdown/wpa_action
===================================================================
--- debian/ifupdown/wpa_action	(revision 1578)
+++ debian/ifupdown/wpa_action	(working copy)
@@ -54,7 +54,6 @@
 		wpa_hysteresis_check || exit 1
 		ifdown
 		if_post_down_up
-		wpa_cli reassociate
 		;;
 
 	"stop"|"down")

Andrew