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Re: ROAM/CONNECT event with PORT_AUTHORIZED

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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



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