Re: mesh point and ap mode on same interface

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>]

Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com> writes:

> 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.

Nice, that looks useful. Thanks for the tip.

> However, it seems brcmfmac is the only user of that function according
> to lxr (or elixir).

git-grep says the same.

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