Re: mesh point and ap mode on same interface

[Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>]

On 11/15/2017 11:01 AM, Kalle Valo wrote:
> (adding linux-wireless for a cfg80211 question)
>
> Peter Oh <peter.oh@bowerswilkins.com> writes:
>> On 11/08/2017 04:49 AM, Harms, Hannes wrote:
>>
>>> I found a solution for the problem:
>>>
>>> When joining the mesh with beacon interval  set  to 100
>>> both  mesh and ap interface are coming up.
>>>
>>>> iw mesh0 mesh join my_mesh beacon-interval 100
>>>
>>> The default beacon interval is 1000 for mesh interfaces.
>>> It seems that QCA9880 is not working
>>> with different beacon intervals for ap + mesh.
>>
>> Good to hear that working. But mesh beacon interval 1000 which is
>> default value should work. Any mesh beacon intervals of multiple of AP
>> beacon intervals are supposed to work.
>>
>> (In other words, mesh beacon intervals that are not aligned by
>> multiple of AP beacon intervals won't work). These are valid for both
>> of QCA9880 and QCA4019 as far as I know.
>
> It would be nice if ath10k could print a warning if the beacon intervals
> are not compatible. Or is there a way to enforce the beacon interval
> with help of cfg80211 or mac80211?

There is beacon interval checking in utility function 
cfg80211_check_combinations() ->
cfg80211_iter_combinations() -> cfg80211_calculate_bi_data() for that. 
However, it seems brcmfmac is the only user of that function according 
to lxr (or elixir).

Regards,
Arend