How to run wpa_supplicant with static mesh interface?

[Peter Oh]

On 02/08/2016 06:00 AM, Bob Copeland wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 05:59:29PM +0530, Neelansh Mittal wrote:
>>> Is there such a driver you're working with?  All of the mesh-capable
>>> drivers I know about (all mac80211-based) support STA mode.
>> Yes, We have a hybrid driver. With one of the interfaces(wiphy)
>> supporting only mesh ,
Not sure if this change solves your problem, but worth to try it.
https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/trunk/package/network/services/hostapd/patches/100-mesh_mode_fix.patch?rev=48529
This patch is to set interface to Mesh type instead of STA.
>>   hooked to mac80211(to leverage mac80211s
>> implementation).
>> And the other wiphy(supporting STA,SAP,P2P) directly hooked to cfg80211.
> Interesting, is this driver publicly available somewhere?
>
> Anyway in answer to your question, as far as I know there's no functional
> reason why STA mode should be required for mesh operation, just no one has
> run into this situation so far.  So I imagine it's a simple matter of
> programming...
>