[PATCH 04/11] base-files: uci-defaults: allow setting the number of MACs a radio can use

[John Crispin]

On 24.09.24 12:53, Andreas Gnau wrote:
>
> Not a WiFi-expert, but: How will this band parameter work for WiFi 7 
> MLO where a single-phy device can represent multiple bands?
>
> How would we deal with devices having more than one radio per band? 
> For example, some repeaters have a separate radio for backhaul and 
> fronthaul.
>
>> +    local mac_count="$2"
>
> Out of interest: How is mac_count to be used in practice? What 
> component is enforcing / allocating the MAC addresses? 

there is an UCI option "num_global_macaddr" that can be set for a 
wifi-device. the script code will then know how many consecutive MACs 
can be used for a PHY without using the private bit

MLO will ignore that setting just like multiple_bssid does right now