[PATCH v4 0/7] Fix and unify wpa_supplicant AP/mesh frequency setup
Jouni Malinen
j at w1.fi
Wed Oct 14 13:20:28 EDT 2020
On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 01:53:16PM +0200, Markus Theil wrote:
> This series removes partially duplicated frequency setup code from mesh.c
> and enhances wpa_supplicant_conf_ap_ht to perform at least the same config
> settings.
>
> wpa_supplicant_conf_ap_ht's call position in mesh.c is changed in order to have
> effect before interface initialization.
>
> 20/40 coexistence for mesh networks is disabled, because it can not be decided
> in a larger distributed setup, which is not booted at the same time, but with
> some delay (network partitions will remain and not unify, see also longer comment
> in the code of "mesh: fix channel init order, disable pri/sec channel switch").
> Some form of partition detection and dynamic channel switching or distributed
> consensus algorithm would be needed to resolve this issue, which IEEE 802.11
> at this time not includes.
>
> v4: better debug messages for hw_features channel setting
> use helpers in more places
Thanks, applied other patches except for 4/7:
> wpa_supplicant: fix frequency config for non p2p vht/he cases
I have an open question on this related to impact on P2P.
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