netifd issue

[Hannu Nyman]

e9hack kirjoitti 9.11.2023 klo 17.32:
> I face a strange behaviour since commit 
> 516ab774cc16d4b04b3b17a067cbf2649f1adaeb (system-linux: fix race condition 
> on bringing up wireless devices). After a reboot or a full restart of 
> hostapd via 'wifi down; sleep 30; killall hostapd; sleep 5; wifi', only the 
> first of 3 5G AP's is join to the configured bridge. The two faulty AP's 
> are up and connecting is possible, but there is no real network connection. 
> If I change one parameter of the faulty AP's in the config file and do a 
> 'wifi reload', than the 2 AP's are join to the bridges.
>
> ...
>
> If I change the sequence of the 5G AP's in the config file, the behaviour 
> after reboot doesn't change. Only phy1-ap0 does join to the bridge, either 
> to br-lan or to br-tor. The previous netifd commit 
> 40ed7363caf2b22b6e29ed9d9948189c2bc4c8f3 (device: fix build error on 32 bit 
> systems) doesn't have this issue.


I see the same error.
Some APs do not initially join the bridge, but after making a small pointless 
edit to the AP's config in /etc/config/wireless and reloading wifi, the AP 
then joins the bridge.


  OpenWrt SNAPSHOT, r24331-168beef1dd
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root at router4:~# brctl show
bridge name     bridge id               STP enabled     interfaces
br-lan          7fff.c4411ef8a51f       no              lan4
                                                         lan2
                                                         hn5wpa3
                                                         lan3
                                                         lan1
root at router4:~# nano /etc/config/wireless
root at router4:~# wifi reload
root at router4:~# brctl show
bridge name     bridge id               STP enabled     interfaces
br-lan          7fff.c4411ef8a51f       no              lan4
                                                         hn5wpa2r
                                                         lan2
                                                         hn5wpa3
                                                         lan3
                                                         lan1