On Thu, 2017-09-14 at 14:37 -0500, Denis Kenzior wrote: > > > My earlier point is that software roams need to have the exact > > > same behavior as well. And my understanding is that when we try > > > to Fast-Transition (e.g. issue a CMD_ASSOCIATE), operstate is no > > > longer UP. > I'm talking about the kernel behavior, not wpa_s. Oh. > My guys discovered that the kernel seems to twiddle operstate > automagically? E.g. see description of > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/wireless/iwd.git/commit/?id=4d > 20db05d7c8806749db574e9231bd5d1c476c7f Well I guess any time that the carrier does in fact go down, you'd also reset oper state... And now that I think about it, that does in fact happen in ieee80211_set_disassoc(), which we even go through for FT roaming. Sounds like something we should fix? johannes