[OpenWrt-Devel] How to trigger wifi reload from wifi.lua

[Daniel Golle]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 01:21:56PM +0200, Jo-Philipp Wich wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > On the Luci GUI, the current behaviour of Save&Apply of changes to the
> > items in wifi.lua and wireless_modefreq.htm is to invoke a network
> > restart. I would like to to change this behavior to invoke wifi restart
> > directly from wifi.lua.
> 
> This is not supported and will confuse the netifd wireless state
> tracking. You should instead extend the netifd wireless handlers to
> properly deal with updated values.

John and me have been working on this in the past months, I'm now doing
a final round of rebasing and testing right now.
Take a look at my staging tree here:
https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/staging/dangole.git;a=summary

What is new here is that hostapd and wpa_supplicant are running
permanently and offering a ubus interface to add, remove and modify
wifi interfaces. netifd and the scripts previously wrapping around
hostapd/wpa_supplicant have been modified to make use of that.
You can easily test it by modifying the wireless configuration and
calling 'wifi reconf', changes should take effect immediatly without
affecting unmodified networks.

Currently, there is still one instance of each service for each
wiphy, however, once things have been tested a bit more, we can
reduce this and use the same service to manage interfaces accross
radios -- this should already be supported in hostapd/wpa_supplicant
right now, however, we intend to change things one by one to make
debugging easier.

I'd highly appreciate all reviewing and testing of our changes, I'm
planning to merge them into master at the end of next week after
posting a comprehensive series on the mailing list tomorrow or monday.


Cheers


Daniel




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