On Fri, 2017-09-15 at 08:50 -0500, Denis Kenzior wrote: > > I thought you meant sending an 802.11 auth frame to the new AP > > before breaking the connection to the old AP. > > > > I mean 802.11-2012 Section 11.5.9.2 type preauthentication. Yeha, OK. > And AFAIK the kernel generates a disconnected event as soon as we > send a CMD_AUTHENTICATE, so not sure how you envision 'your' > preauthentication working... That's what I was trying to say - it doesn't. A few years ago we tried to support that but it's not really possible to do well. > However, you're not answering my question... Which was? > > Well, with full MAC devices you should let the device decide on the > > BSS? > > > > Why? So we can deal with the various ways a vendor firmware can > screw up? Besides, you have an asymmetry in the kernel API. :) > One can use regular roaming on a full mac but not FT. We had intended to have NL80211_CMD_ROAM to make that decision once, but never really used it for that... I think it could be implemented but I don't really know how well drivers were to support it. johannes
