[OpenWrt-Devel] Request for any netifd wireless documentation

[Bruno Antunes]

Same here...

I'm trying to implement ht-mcs without luck.

Bruno

On 18 November 2014 11:19, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Could someone explain netifd and wireless management a bit, please? I
> tried to read some code, but so far it looks messy to me.
> Maybe if we had some short description of netifd wireless layout on
> wiki, it would be more developer friendly.
>
> I can see multiple files:
> /sbin/wifi
> /lib/wifi/mac80211.sh
> /lib/netifd/wireless/mac80211.sh
> /lib/netifd/hostapd.sh
> but they mostly don't contain any comments.
>
> I'm not sure how much it's worth to list unclear parts of that.
>
> It's confusing to have /lib/netifd/ and /lib/wifi/. It's confusing to
> have two APIs (inconsistent callbacks). I can't understand why even
> for mac80211.sh we keep detecting code in /lib/wifi/. There isn't
> anything documented in the /lib/netifd/netifd-wireless.sh. I have no
> idea how netifd <-> scripts communication works. What is handled in
> scripts and what in netifd?
>
> Could someone try to describe this a bit? Preferably on wiki page, so
> it can be easily found and extended by others?
>
> --
> Rafał
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