[LEDE-DEV] (V)HT mode selection for meshpoint (was "ath10k + ap + encryption")

[Sven Eckelmann]

On Mittwoch, 6. Dezember 2017 22:26:09 CEST Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 6. Dezember 2017 18:52:01 CET Daniel Hernandez wrote:
> > So  been running this mesh  patch  on  4  routers in my home for  over a month and  it  works  great !  
> > Reporting my  feedback to  see  if  it can  be  in the next  release  of  LEDE  .
> 
> Felix Fietkau worked hard to get something into LEDE. I think all(?)  relevant 
> changes [1] are now in LEDE master (added 21 days ago). So you could try the 
> current master and send him some feedback.
...[

We have now noticed that your related change [1] will create a VHT80 mesh 
interface when you specified VHT40 in for the wifi-device. For example like 
the this configuration:

    config wifi-device 'radio1'
            option type 'mac80211'
            option channel '44'
            option disabled '0'
            option beacon_int '100'
            option distance '300'
            option path 'platform/soc/a800000.wifi'
            option htmode 'VHT40'
            option noscan '1'
            option ldpc '0'
            option hwmode '11na'
            option txpower '26'
    
    config wifi-iface 'wmesh3'
            option device 'radio1'
            option ifname 'mesh3'
            option network 'mesh3'
            option mode 'mesh'
            option mesh_id 'mesh'
            option disabled '0'
            option mcast_rate '18000'
            option mesh_ttl '1'
            option mesh_fwding '0'
            option region_disable '0'
            option macaddr 'AE:86:74:AB:77:F5'
            option encryption 'psk2'
            option key 'fb719b4e5ecd1bca734c1af1b59d28c7'

The new interface then looks like:

    phy#1
            Interface mesh3
                    ifindex 8
                    wdev 0x100000003
                    addr ae:86:74:ab:77:f5
                    type mesh point
                    channel 44 (5220 MHz), width: 80 MHz, center1: 5210 MHz
                    txpower 23.00 dBm

Problem is here that max_oper_chwidth is not parsed by 
wpa_supplicant_join_mesh and instead overwritten by it. It will therefore just 
use the highest oper mode it can use for the selected frequency. And because 
vht is also overwritten, the same will happen with HT40.

Kind regards,
	Sven

[1] https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commit;h=d91494eedf06ac6b31c1aa9f7172871b16af96c8
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