Re: AW: IWD 2.20 does not support Fast Roaming with NXP 88W9098 chipset

[James Prestwood <prestwoj@gmail.com>]

H Dierk,

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>> I also added a sorted log file containing iwd traces, iwmon text logs 
>> and kernel msgs (of the NXP driver): 
>> resorted_logs_of_iwd_ft_connection_trial#3.txt
>>
>>
>> We would like to use iwd instead of wpa_supplicant so any help would 
>> be appreciated!
> At this point in time looking at the above logs it appears IWD isn't 
> compatible with this out of tree driver due to the requirement to use 
> CMD_AUTHENTICATE. I've thought about adding this back in for "weird" 
> drivers that have problems with how IWD works. For the near term we 
> could try and detect this case, via the CMD_REGISTER failure, and 
> disable FT entirely for drivers like this. You'd be stuck with only 
> reassociation but at least the device could roam. I can get you a 
> patch to try soon.

I just sent a few patches to the mailing list. Would you be able to try 
these out and verify the device roams? Note, its going to choose 
reassociation now (if they work as intended), not FT. But any roaming is 
better than nothing at least. Longer term we can think about using 
CMD_AUTHENTICATE for drivers like this.

Thanks,

James